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The Cholmondeley Sisters
Cholmondely

Elegiac and  juxtaposed
in red on white.
Starch stiff and confined.
One the butterfly riff of the other.

Holding, still swaddled
in red cocoons,
their livid dolls,
their terrible vanitas.


Shadwell Smith


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