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re-D--                          SWIRL

      After midnight                   A
      my blue flair
      swirls across                    splintered
      a sheet of chalk white           bone in
      erasable bond paper               the back
      where a jerk of the hand          bends and
      unites the abc's                   flexes like
      of thought
      indelibly                          a rose
      with the                            colored rubber
      heart                               band before
      of a                                snapping.
      dreamer.

Your                                    (9

      Picture is f                     COl'1~
I.n the art         ramed neatly        This is
                                       left
             gallery of my mind.

      --M. Mary Gately                  anOther
                                       before d

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