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previously published in London Magazine,Feb/Mar 2001

and in collection "The Appropriate Country", Waterloo Press, 2001

 

Motel

 

The bathroom’s pure Hollywood:

Faux -marble, strip-lighting –

mirrors everywhere.   The carpets

smell of rain-washed dog; mauve

polyester’s on the bed.   What’s more,

leaves of unknown trees

are lapping outside my door.

 

Amanda Sewell

 

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