Houdini.(Poem)

Poetry | November 1, 2004| | Copyright

 
HOUDINI 
 
   Each escape 
   involved some art, 
   some hokum, and 
   at least a brief 
   incomprehensible 
   exchange between 
   the man and metal 
   during which the 
   chains were not 
   so much ...

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