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    The Peter Pan Prize

    Mary O'Keefe Brady
    Briarcliff Manor, NY

     

    Tar Beach

    Rooftop antennae poke holes in the sky;

    shingles buckle in July heat,

    ripple like sand under bare feet.


    A rooftop brigade of sheets flap hello,

    slap the horizon,

    flicker and flow


    to undulating waves

    til I part the sea,

    lay down my mat, threadbare times three,


    crisscross hands beneath my head

    look skyward, embrace

    my magic carpet bed.

     
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