Gorham, Melinda E.

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Lights and Shadows 
Volume 23 Lights and Shadows Volume 23 Article 13 
1979 
Alienation and Comfort 
Melinda E. Gorham 
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Alienation and Comfort 
Melinda E. Gorham 
Third Place Poetry 
I used social skeletons, 
but I bled. 
Shadow and transparent, 
I reflected instead. 
Now searching faces scorn me; 
I know I'm alone. 
But the beast is missing; 
the trap has been thrown. 
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