Highway You
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Looking for my friend
in a blue dress, you smiled
then turned away. When
you were gone, my day
was less. But, I know we
had so much more to say.
Traveling the highways
inked in blue, I know where
I want to stay, always looking
for you.
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Jennifer Lemming
Jennifer Lemming ’s blog about living in North Dakota, USA, A Page on the Plains, is archived on the Hudson Valley Writers Guild site. She won Grand Prize in the Dancing Poetry Contest in 2019. Her poems and short fiction have been published in online and print journals. Her latest chapbook, Star Slough, was published by Dark Heart Press, March 2019. In 2023, North Dakota Humanities published her poem, “BisBack Badlands”. She lives in Bismarck, North Dakota where she hands out her extra copies of the Poetry Magazine, usually in tattoo parlors & beauty salons in Mandan and Bismarck North Dakota, respectively.
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