Poetry
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Denial
This body never was mine. So the things you taught it weren’t, either… Continue reading
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Nurture
Funny, how an idea can root, when you are told that it will die before it ever reaches light. How, after decades spent believing it was buried, the wind finds it suddenly tapping at your window like some long forgotten childhood friend: sneaking in when the sun withdraws, and casting hope on your darkened room. Time, then, I… Continue reading
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Restraint
You were safe. Your weapons neatly stowed in the pockets of your strength and your fragility: only there for self-defense, and only used when there was no hope of escape… Continue reading
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Frost
I remember the mornings, when the cold had crept so thoroughly through the house that there were icicles at its window frames, and at the edges of your words. And how each of us would drift through our routines and down the staircase in a mist… Continue reading
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Inheritance
When the day comes, I won’t be showing up for the reading… Continue reading
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Disorder
It seems subtle, until it doesn’t. Like so many things in life. Hidden, until they aren’t. Until they can’t be, anymore. When their carefully crafted veneers have finally worn down. And all their crookedness and all their fractures are made known. And you might wonder, how you missed it, what that says about you. Or… Continue reading
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Canaries
We may be visible, recognisable and, therefore, vulnerable. But that, in of itself, could have ended… Continue reading
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Safety
The trouble with nets, is that you get caught in them… Continue reading
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Gaze
You looked at me, one day, and you told me, “you can’t even look yourself in the eye”. And you stood up behind me, and moved me, like some kind of poseable mannequin, pushing me closer to the old mirror… Continue reading
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