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    “26 Letters Refuse to Whisper” by Lynne Jensen Lampe with Artwork by Carrie Wilmarth

    May 16, 2020 /

    Above: “UNTITLED,” 2020. Oil on Wood Panel, 9 x 12″

    As for saying goodbye, we don’t know how.
    Shoulder to shoulder we keep on walking.

    —Anna Akhmatova

    _
    As for saying goodbye, I know how
    but don’t want to surrender to these
    changed lives & cautious moments. COVID-19,
    death-o-matic, that’s what I call you. A period jabbed into the heart of a sentence.
    Each day I look out my window &
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