that the background and the foreground are merged

The place was Hanover, New Hampshire

for a now long dead painter

I told them,
but I doubt if they will print it

outlived my time

The ones I keep under my bed

while his wife ate seafood salads

as if it was a regular job


Dorothy Abrona McCrae
by Judy Malloy
Narrabase Press, c2000, 2008
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