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WINTER ' FOURTEEN A Few Thoughts On The Soul by Constance Brewer Wouldn't it be better to share a soul, to pass it back and forth like a bottle of good red wine under moonlight, to drink deep or not as the mood struck? Wouldn't it be better to not choose a soul mate, instead gain a half by random coincidence because maybe they like opera and you don't, but you can live with that oddity? Wouldn't it be best not to worry over your soul's imminent demise and give up the whole heaven and hell fantasy as an old wives’ tale, even though you're an old wife? Sometimes it's better to disregard a soul altogether, and run up and down the picket fence of the heart dragging a stick against the slats until you end, out of fence and eager for dinner. The Linnet's Wings Poetry, Winter 2014