Tuesday 21 December 2010

Attic

At
the bottom of a
box
I found your voice
caught
suspended
on a
strand of tape
cryogenically kept
fragile
as paper.



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Wednesday 15 December 2010

The Meat Show

You said
let’s swap eye colour
Just for a day
but first
we swapped skins.
You pinched mine
until I bruised
and I gave you a fright.
Later, I wore you
Like a hair-slide
and you stepped out
with me
tied around your neck. 


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Friday 10 December 2010

Voyeur

I watched you
through a crack
in the door
but you didn’t see me.

I watched you
cutting up meat
like they had cut the
cancer out of
you weeks before.

I wondered if it had been
branded-
If they had held it up
to reveal tiny c’s
covering its surface.

I wondered
if a tiny c remained
inside
buried deep
where they couldn’t reach.

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