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night woman
i lie on the kitchen table,
and hear noise. a door is opened
and light brought into the room
pillows and boots are piled
a yard high on an unheated stove. now
i want to see where you let her sleep,
your wife calls out. you come in first,
your smile brushes
over the walls and over me.
i seek refuge in the garden outside,
and hear someone shouting
she loves you, she just doesn’t know it!
it is raining on one side of the house.
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