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Part sky,
part earth; with epaulet-
wings and oak-leaf hands,
this towering Josephine
Baker dances smooth as a vowel,
limbs bent in circumflex accents,
her famous banana skirt ripening. She shimmies
into his beloved Mediterranean
with eyebrow-shaped doves
through quartets of color:
dried persimmon,
ripe pomegranate,
deep absinthe.
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