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Seclusion’s effortless
within the hiss
of vehicles as they pass
and go so easily through what is us
settlement’s hundreds and thousands.

Through bejewelled interchange
the engine’s steady lunge,
on all sides the fringe
of rivalries beneath an orange
anguilline array of lamps.

Then just a cat
bridling at the light
its tail around the numberplate
uncurling, its forefeet
crossed and hesitant.

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