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Excerpt: For Donnie Peters (1964-1999)

by Shane Rhodes

        Donnie, we counted the days
    ‘til your death
        by tulip spears and lily bayonets.
              I last saw you in a has-been
          coat—fox fur—always a scene—
    on 17th Ave in November.

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