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PNAutumn2008

Lady Brown is not available

Your seven lemons in the bowl from Faro have grown small and hard. And asymmetric   shadows are rising, walking the dry afternoon down the stairs.   Without you, there is only a stream of toe scuff   minutes, heel/note, heel/note, thin quavers through the eye of the radio.   The red-haired dancer from the […]

The Last Lady Ratcatcher

I was the last Lady Ratcatcher, bore the scar of two yellow incisors on my wedding finger.   Each night I crept out, cage ready, my mind swift as a trap on a neck bone, my beauty legendary.   I wore a cape of brown fur, a belt of silver rats running from buckle to […]

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