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Slowly, with intention to tempt, she sidles out
(a smile and a shake of bells)
in silver, tight as a fish’s, and a web
of thin-flame veils, and her brown buttery flesh
(but she is a mermaid with twelve metal tails)
glimpsed or guessed by seconds.

— Terence Tiller The Inward Animal (1943)

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