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Apparition

By Richard Mather



And when the Devil called for the direct

treatment of the thing, I saw at once

that if words are to be as things,

language must be manmade.

 

And when he called for the other sex

to be remade as objects, I went

further and converted an entire crowd

into a bough with blossoms.

 

But why 'apparition,' he asked.

It's hardly a thing at all.

And ‘petals on a wet, black bough’,

sounds too pastoral, unmanly even.


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