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The Shawlie's Shadow
After an art exhibition by Brian Lalor

Dusk.
She looms out of shallow shadows,
moves from cackle and call of past market stalls.
Unseen, she shuffles toward her hilltop home,
her breath heavy, hoarse as a crow