I met Fate in the woods,
"Fancy seeing you here," I said
"Oh, please," she replied, "This was meant to be."
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quivering like a tense arrow,
I think I see a kestrel up on
longaford tor.
it is not
innate, this private familiar.
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every time Mum sets the seed
under the magnolia tree, she will
count the collared doves that used
to visit: one time we had four, but…
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Yes, it was dark.
No, I will not give you poetry.
I wore my headphones in one ear,
tripping down grassy slopes,
and back up much-too-wide steps.
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Like tarmac, thin layer of carbon on my tongue,
Lick it off and feel my cheeks crumble like sand.
Shiny shower gel bottles and a shrivelled bar of green hand soap.
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You,
Cleaved my ribs apart,
like a clam shell,
and let my organs,
spill into soft sea foam.
Entwined with each other
Lying in the silence of the night,
Your Vernier caliper
My coffee mug,
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I’ve noticed I only get nostalgic when I’m lonely.
Even with the life I’ve left behind me, there’s something
that I’m missing, like the trinkets that spilled out of the
overpacked trunk of the car in front of us on the way to Ohio;
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don’t you think?
what more could you ask for?
maybe a tin man or a cowardly lion
maybe anything apart from what I am
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