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Cephalonia (Free verse) by Caducus
Those hills behind her
They held her innocence
The way she held her tongue
When he moaned about her bread.
Those hills behind her
Hold on to a sea that leaves around six
She leaves around seven
Holding on to her lovers cane.
When she last felt the ocean
It crashed upon her breasts
Sixty nine years ago
When she last felt her lover.
One night a year she returns to the hill
Spends a night by the grove they first fell
Waves below crash like promised bodies
Too impatient for tradition.
Those hills around her
Fill with memories and 'luger' smoke
She was told he was carrying loaves
To eat with the squid he caught
And in his pocket was his Fathers ring
With their names engraved by a bullet.
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