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“Ruby’s last dress,” “Dialectics After Dark” and “Morningside at the Desert Casino”

Issue 29 by Dawn Terpstra

Ruby’s last dress
is the color of desert flowers
after a late spring monsoon,
purple pops on barrel cactus, pink of prickly pears,
pleated across a canvas of rock-damp sand.

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