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Two Nuns at the Mall


Black and white and black, they fall upstairs
to Better Dresses, where I spot them later
fingering cocktail silks. The short one wears

wire rims like a double yoke; the taller one
wears amber freckles whose color comes and goes.
They are still young; they laugh in unison

discreetly through Lingerie and up a flight
past Furs and Leather, Domestics and Layettes
and out of sight, all white and black and white.
 
© Rhina P. Espaillat