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Tag Archives: Ellie Schoenfeld

Poetry Wednesday – “Parting the Red Sea” by Ellie Schoenfeld

Posted on February 29, 2012 by thisfrenzy
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From Ellie Schoenfeld’s collected poems The Dark Honey

If someone asks me
what I believe in,
I say, “tulips.”

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