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This poem is taken from PN Review 267, Volume 49 Number 1, September - October 2022.

Paula Rego’s Studio and her ‘Dollies’ Anthony Rudolf
1
Sacred space  
– like a bedroom –
entered by few.

We human models
are accessory,  
and accessary:

we survive,
a little older,
like the artist.

And the home-made
dollies survive,
they obey

in working hours
the rules of the game.
They keep their secrets.

2
After reading
a few pages
of Daphne du Maurier’s
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