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Per Contra

An international journal of the arts, literature, and ideas.

How Poppies Grow

by Elizabeth J. Coleman

The last time I saw
his silhouette in that red-

stained field of coquelicots,
I was just sixteen or so,
and unfamiliar with regret. 

In France they call them
coquelicots, and that day I saw
just how they grow,

in Breton fields at random,
rather than in rows.

Other work by Elizabeth J. Coleman:

  • One Way of Looking at Grace
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