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closing the lid

By Amy Losak
November 9, 2018
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2 thoughts on “closing the lid”

Pris Campbell
November 10, 2018 at 12:09 am

Lovely, moving haiku by a writer I admire.

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1. Amy Losak
  November 14, 2018 at 9:16 am
  
  Pris, thanks so much. And I feel the same way about you.
  
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