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Window Dressing
Today shes in cocktail red, black sequined beret,
satin gloves to the elbow,
one hand raised to the buses rolling off I-5.
Who dresses this mannequin in thrift-store dreams,
for a fantasy life three floors above Fairview?
Behind her the couch fades a paler plum each season.
Julie Gerrard
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