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"der paul muldoon's Isomething elSeI \

'kate natistlan ;
..:~.
When your feet' dipped ,into the water
to "be t'insedclean i'
I thought Of"Azbine,
o'f pho~9graphs, of spice merchants' daughte~s.' I

Of' how citrus I
was cleverly applied
to wrists and hips and eyes, /
how when his mistress )

danced
(the flicker of silk seduced)
his reason suffused

by her shouldered glance",
Your ankles arabesqued with he~na ink;
your mirror eyes which made me think

of, something else, and some t hi nq else,'
then something else again.