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Brocade in ivory and foam-flecked cream, Your robe-de-chambre has arrived. Many-sidedly turned out (by hand). The smocking at T.G. Jakobowicz?Äôs Is The Biz for the hob-nobility. Assume the cutter?Äôs scruples with lace For the floppy bodice, pique at the ruffle, Two square yards of netting Under cute queenly ormshells. Trip-up velvet skirting, Angelhooded, slight-skein sleeves. [...]

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The gates are open, and she comes through; embellished by the moonlight. His attempts, bring back hopes of a forgotten promise, he shines. Remembering her attempts he is strengthened in silence, he holds for she reigns in his province. And this night is different, and he remembers the slight nuances that take shape in the [...]

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First published in Exit #13 For Thanasis Maskaleris (2) Poet, teach my poems how to dance! (3) Now they can only limp along, alla zoppa (4), As if in a trance to unheard music Played on un-amplified instruments, By young voices as wide eyed as Owls, As if Minerva could reappear as cloned birds Perched [...]

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The streets are empty cold and I am alone this morning My idle rant appears as steam Meaningless cloudwisp hung in a crazy sky jabber Ah! Two people pass Holding hands walking wearing warm knits They do not see, Father I am wet with the dew of Christmas dawn and There is no manger Two [...]

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