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Wednesday Poem: "She Came and Went"
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Wednesday Poem: "She Came and Went"

Those peonies, though

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This poem started as a microfiction prompt from the wonderful

Miguel S.
over at The Fiction Dealer. I was curious about the world within the prose I wrote for that prompt, so I broke it apart into a poem and looked around in the gaps for more details.

What sort of characters populate your everyday world? I’d love to hear in the comments!

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