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 …
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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
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 …
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