By Patricia Tompkins
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reed and vanity
escape, swift as falcons.
But a fledgling bird
lingers in Pandora’s box:
weak, cautious, or smart?
Patricia Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fiction and poems have appeared in Mslexia, Astropoetica, flashquake, iota, and other publications.
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