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Cate Lycurgus, Second Place winner in Narrative’s Fourteenth Annual Poetry Contest and a finalist in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Annual Contests, is the author of the debut collection Radiance, Despite (Four Way Books, 2028). She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Indiana University. She lives in San Jose, California, where she teaches business writing.

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    by Cate Lycurgus
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    If all along     we all     had known

    the leaves  we leafed    would

    leave      us lone-       ly  gold-

    en books  we on-/     ly loaned to lose
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