Cate Lycurgus, Second Place winner in Narrative’s Fourteenth Annual Poetry Contest and a finalist in the Seventeenth Annual Contest, 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

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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