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Visitations

By Richard Dey,

girl I saw in Indianoplace--though

the air your body shapes

table to table is similar,

not sensual precisely

but gradual-like, unspoken.

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There was a distance about her who wore a suit

of white pique on stage in the jackhammering

fleshy club that hosted has-been

direct-from-New York show biz stars,

almost like a general's or the Pentagon's,

a distance far as the measure of her knowing;

the slight quiver below my belt told me

sure as the stars above the cold stockade.

iv

There was a distance too about the girl

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