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The encounter
Sorry I turned up at your door this way All dressed up On my way from a coffee shop So sorry you know Didn’t come to see you  Again That’d be embarrassing Just came to see your friend Selling weed out his window Cept he’s closed it now so I’ve had to knock And …
A familiar sense of falling
To walk into this kitchen is to see You standing, softened in the yellow light Of the hob and red from the wine and our earlier tries to get drunk while we cooked. It is to see you swaying tunelessly To our Spotify playlist whilst reaching Out and turning from the counter and sink to …
Scabs
She would pick at the scab And think of him And bleed And bleed As she picked And picked Till the pain hurt more Than the joy it brought And she’d dripped dark blood On the bathroom tiles
Ritual at 2am
It’s somewhere and someone is thinking of them Though they’re not sure if they should just laugh or just cry Cause the wall in front of her is flecked with pale grey And the bath where she’s sitting is colder than ice And there’s someone’s sat slumped by the side of the tub And his …
Fireworks
There were fireworks And light, glimmering The short pause between each breath A shimmering eulogy To the heart within my chest Bursting with the sound of colours
A suggestion of gravity
As a child, more often then not, when looking at the sky, She felt like gravity would reverse and she’d float, fall, release, up into the mottled black of the great expanse so far up, the bedroom light would be the stars Sometimes, now, more often than then, when she lies awake to watch …
A one sided rhythm
They were four – Four beats And hands And ears And eyes – She felt – Through space And dust And light And air – She was- A crush A burn A wave A hush – She reached – A gasp Five beats And she’s Left holding Nothing
Creases
I miss you in your ruffles, In the corners and the creases. – I miss you in the shadows, In the tiniest of pieces. – I miss you in the night chill In the rain, the snow, the sun. – I miss you in the morning, When the day has just begun. – I miss …
An understanding
That you jumped off the cliff, And into the sea Was no surprise. . As a child you had laughed, At eddies and ripcords And a million glimmering droplets. . You had peered, Stood eyes wide open till they cried of their own accord. . Stood Alone, In pools of rocks And waves and salt. …
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