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1987
regret
March 1987


“regret,” Ensign, Mar. 1987, 65

regret

Third Place Winner

my mind is an iron

running over

the same old board

pressing out words

like sleeves

on a shirt

struggling to get

the lapels

to lay flat

carefully ironing

out the wrinkles

and sometimes

pressing them in

Painting by Minerva Teichert