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by The Quiet Voice · 10 lines
At eleven, traffic pauses. A bus kneels at the curb. The cashier stills her hands
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 10 lines
The wall does not say hero. It says names, line after line,
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 9 lines
A child pins a paper poppy slightly crooked on her coat. She knows the word remember
Read, listen and shareby The Wild Voice · 11 lines
After the guns, the field made no speech. It lifted poppies
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 12 lines
The uniform hangs behind winter coats, creased into discipline,
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