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perhaps imagined

I’m constantly catching glimpses
of perhaps imagined arachnids, insects
rodents and other assorted vermin
scuttling through the half-lit places
in the shadowy peripheries of my eye
there are things you can’t put your hand on
just out of sight, just out of reach
who’s to say that they’re not there?

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