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Poems

A Day Off

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

Well, I’ll go window-shopping in Larousse

for seeds of words. Strangely, they’re not for sale —
you help yourself to what the worlds produce.

Here are the conic sections, there the whales,
the art, the musical instruments, the wigs….


My search is stopped by a picture of the sarigue,
Didelphis, a marsupial of the west,
with young.

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