by Rae Armantrout
A merchant is
probing for us
with his chintz curtain
effect.
*
“Ha, ha, you missed me,”
a dead person says.
*
There’s the bank’s
colonial balcony
where no one has
ever stood.
From:
Veil
Copyright ©:
2001, Wesleyan University Press
Last updated December 02, 2022