Heather Sager

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the ghosts of my mind
abandoned me

I can never
unite
with the drifters

while the sun is shining
and blue daisies sing
I bear castles of ruin
on my shoulders

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Heather Sager is an Illinois poet and short-fiction author whose recent works appear in Words & Whispers, dreams walking, Door Is a Jar, Bluepepper, Sein und Werden, The Fabulist Words & Art, Slippage Lit, and elsewhere.