poetry

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half broken

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hearted to sever for years

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pale grew thy

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cheek and cold

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and share in

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its shame

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a knell in

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mine ear

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in secret we met

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in silence i grieve

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and the waves

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clasp one another

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and the moonbeams

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kiss the sea

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the winds of

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Heaven mix for ever

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nothing in the

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world is single;

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all things by

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a law divine

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when glided

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in porphyria

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that moment she was

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mine, mine, fair

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perfectly pure

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and good

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as a shut bud

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that holds a bee

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blushed bright beneath

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my burning kiss

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the smiling little

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rosy head

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and yet God has

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not said a word!

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as wild vines

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about a tree

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o my

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palm tree

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set thy trunk

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all bare

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bands of

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greenery which insphere thee

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drop heavily down -

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burst, shattered, everywhere!

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i do not think of thee-

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i am too near thee

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starving

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sod

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the smile on your

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mouth was the deadest thing

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like an ominous

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bird a wing

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wrings with

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wrong

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your face, and the God curst sun

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and a tree

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fallen from an

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ash and were grey

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digging his garden

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planting potatoes

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heartful of

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headlines

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is your life more real

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because you dig and sow?

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our souls tap out messages

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across the icy miles

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word of that

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other world

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still,

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its you

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like the shut

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of a winter’s day

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more like a

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little frightened fay

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lying awake with

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her wide brown stare

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we chased her,

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flying like a hare

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we caught her,

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fetched her home

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shy as a leveret

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swift as he

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sweet as the first

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wild violets

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Oh! my God!

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the down, the soft young down of her

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the brown of her -

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her eyes, her hair, her hair!

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like a satellite

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wrenched from its orbit

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the pathos of a

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half fledged thing

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into a

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wildnerness

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like a winged seed

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loosened from its parent stem

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the small, the scorching

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ordeals which fire’s one irresolute clay

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how selfhood begins

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with a walking away

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my father, 25

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in the same suit

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my mother, 23

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in a sprigged dress

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her hair, the colour of

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wheat takes on the light

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the same 3 plates

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the tin cups painted blue

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the sky whitens as

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if lit by three suns

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they beckon me from

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the other bank

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i had not thought

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it would be like this

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his shoulders globed

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like a full sail strung

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his eye

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narrowed and angled at the ground

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i stumbled in

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his hob-nailed wake

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all i ever did

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was follow

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i was a nuisance

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tripping, falling

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but today it is

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my father who keeps stumbling

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mother any distance

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greater than a single span

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the acres of the walls,

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the prairies of the floors

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spool of tape, recording length

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reporting metres, centimetres back to base

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anchor.

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kite.

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the ladder to

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the loft, to breaking point

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…i reach

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to wards a hatch

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on an endless sky

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to fall or fly

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your polka dot dress blows

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round your legs. Marilyn.

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in the ballroom with the thousand

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eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows

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the decade ahead of my loud, possessive

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yell was the best one eh?

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high heeled

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red shoes, relics

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your ghost clatters

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towards me

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cha cha cha!

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stamping stars from the wrong pavement

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where you sparkle and waltz and

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laugh before you were mine

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the clouds had

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given their all

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the waterlogged

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earth

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we skirted the lake

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silent and apart

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a show of tipping

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in unison

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icebergs of white

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feather

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like boats righting

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in rough weather

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porcelain over

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the stilling water

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slow stepping in

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the lakes shingle and sand

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like a pair of wings

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settling after flight

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like vee rowing

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through putney

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above my head high

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heel tap di ground

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in all di

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colours of punjabi

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my bride

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she wear a tartan sari

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vee cum down

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whispering stairs

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and sit on

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my silver stool

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i discover the

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glassy ridge of a scar

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to stare into his

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brown eyes, watch a pupil

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soft and white

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at this altitude reaching for the summit

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watching clouds

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and birds circle