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‘tho only in an e-mail

to do not reply

 

whose alter ego

is not a doppelganger

but incognito

 

unaware the hood

an avenue Deja views

2c from that flat

sisters, three unsteady,

rejoin isoscelean,

a third of whom

unequals two reflections

a twenty-third time

’til midnight’s 24,

altho’ a thaw

among meringues,

as favor an astrologer,

his formal hut

no stranger isoneph,

as block a stovepipe hat

an hour o’er an isopag,

the flute a caliper

But a jumper

in the tropics,

Guatemalan

& Brazilian,

in a pocket

from the closet

by a loggia’s

salamander,

salt-rim jewels

in a sketchbook

silver thread’d,

as the isthmi

center’d pencils’

Panama hat

as circumspect

the cliche world

of expletives

& censorship,

no less to dare,

an attitude

of grace escapes

to solitude

& there resumes

a litheness lent

in deference

an ambience,

the silences

to acquiesce