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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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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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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