
Today
She faces the wall
Laced with tiers
Of mingling litanies:
Morning murmurs,
Smoke-drenched throaty cries,
Salty cold drops.
The wall is hers,
A mirror where she wipes
The blanched geisha aside
And picks up the faint
Traces again
Of that pale
Brown silhouette
By the old morning crib.
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