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‘Eye to Eye’ 

Rosalind Flatman
By Rosalind Flatman
Image: Andrew Collis

Pressed against plate glass,
his golden eye inches from mine
in unnatural proximity
we share a level gaze,
but shamed, I have to turn away,
my loose look taunting his
imitation leopardskin life.

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