*
sometimes
he sees a beast in the mirror
with a horse's head
he confronts his hands–
hooflike–blink it away, he rails
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I well know
the soft plop onto mattress
a cat produces
such visits, from vile dimensions,
a channeler learns to ignore
*Spiros Zafiris is a 61-year-old, Montreal poet..has self-published two books of poetry..his main thing, these days, is tanka, kyoka and haiku, in that order..