Volume LII Number 6
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Poetry
Today Is Shopping Day
She turns to close the door,
this slow shuffling hut,
a snuffling, burrowing animal
hunched already to wear
the glancing insolence of a street,
hungry not for her.
And, as you too have guessed,
her mouth is a rosy blotch,
applied as carefully as she can.
Russell Erwin
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