Linda M. Crate

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lost child

you were a flower
that never got to bloom,
a book that never
got written,
a star never hung in the sky,
the song that was never
sung;
and your absence makes me ache.

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has sixteen published chapbooks the latest being: fairytale love (Magique Publishing, October 2025).