Ivy Leaves Journal of Literature & Art — Vol. 84

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JUST SHELLS

BY MARGARET B. HAYES

A snake-like rattle of shells in a discarded sandwich bag— questions without answers closed up inside. Spiritless shells are all they are. What they were drifted away, like our first moments of discovery, and because I cannot cast them aside, I hold them in my hand, the sound haunting, like nothing ever happened.

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