Knit Delicates

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I swaddled myself

in clothing just pulled

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     from from the dryer,

 

a warm embrace lit by a

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single

      naked

          light bulb

               overhead.

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And even as my thoughts spiraled, there among the cobwebs and gardening tools,

 

I felt as sense of closeness,

if only between myself and this

 

strange

     coin-operated

          basement-dwelling

               machine.