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Honorable Mention
Ghosts
Emusing (Lois P. Jones)

The streets of Buda do not lie.
and so You read them
as you would read some truth
or some favored Rilke line

and there, in the closing light of dusk
violet and still,
you memorize the face
of a real life.

Life as a gypsy
with memories pasted
on every corner
like an old poster
for a Bartók concert

Where are they now
these sacred ghosts?

You have kissed their absence
countless times
breathless, you wait beneath the streetlamps;
wondering why your eyes fail you
and how these concrete walls
of Occidental life
have kept your secret
for so long

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