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Across The Red River Gorge

Jamal Upshaw 1954 (NYC)

as
my soul
journeyed across
the
stiff
tightrope
across
the
red river gorge
where
my
legs felt like
cockatoo green bamboo stilts
that
emptied out
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Written on April 20, 2021

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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme abcDefcDghijklm
Characters 146
Words 27
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
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