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Palais Royale

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The night cold as nuggets, dark as acorn,     against your chest; snow falling     like abandoned echoes releasing energy     into the spyglass, umbrella moon.     A solitary figure trapping hapless sparrows     not in a net but with his footprints     doubling as dungeons against the sun    -     here & there rusting eavestroughs ballooning     into avenging shadows their harpsichord voices     spun on dreams Dick Whittington once used to buy a cat.     And once Tom Thumb Upstaged Peter Pan by appearing     under a petunia but this is not likely to happen soon.     The dawn, forlorn & grey, is a court muffin's handkerchief     waved at a sailor far out at sea.

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