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Tracey Knapp
Two
trapeze wires, twisted.
Twins rising from a tangled fall.
A bearded lady,
too sad to kiss for quarters. The circus might not weigh
enough
to hold itself down in the tornado.
Yet the elephant bets it will
stay put, and it does. ©
Tracey Knapp
Tracey
Knapp's poetry has appeared in La Petite Zine, Painted Bride Quarterly,
The Midday Moon, and assembled in the limited-edition hand-crafted book Match
in a Bottle. She has also has work forthcoming in Sewanee Theological Review.
She
is currently an MA student at Ohio University.
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