Oyster Boy Review 20  
  Summer 2012
 
 
 
 
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Poetry


Red Dress

Patrick Herron


Death wore a red dress and she blew me a headache.
Cruel kisses. A cloth made of letters. I wish she had
chosen to give me something better or at least
something less bitter than, not laden with, tattered
words sewn to love. These our dearly departed.