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A daisy chain for Nina (Free verse) by Caducus
From Nina's hands
my face turned to waves
and when she kissed me,
I was seven and ancient.
Stuart Barr spat at her
And I did nothing
except wipe his hate
from her lips which loved me.
In the summer of 82
she made me a daisy chain.
We married by the swamp
and I carved our names on conifer.
In the winter of 82
Nina wore a headscarf,
Stuart Barr spat at her
then he cried and went home.
In the summer of 83
I returned to the swamp a widow,
kneeled by our altar of conifer
kissing the daisy chain she made me
laying mine next to it
by her favourite sweets.
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