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Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout

Home Federal

A merchant is
probing for us
with his chintz curtain
                                         effect.
 
                    *
 
“Ha, ha, you missed me,”  
a dead person says.
 
                    *
 
There’s the bank’s
colonial balcony
where no one has
                                ever stood.

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