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Chance Encounter

Ewa Kuk




Chance Encounter
or Cousin Teresa met on the bus



She had the
Paula Rego look;
the Paula Rego
steel glint in the eye -

pure evil that - clever, cunning,
slithering from benenath the eyelid;

though holding back, lying low,
still at a loss, waiting for cues -
when to pounce, where to make itself
felt; for now - merely happy at finding a way

to lodge itself - a splinter
in my helpless mind's eye.

Ewa Kuk








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