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Six deaths (Free verse) by Caducus
Long hair on a coarse towel
survived five thousand revolutions
plucked from a stranger in glass
who placed it in your jewelry box.
Next doors lovemaking.
Sighs that were gifts wrapped in breath,
now just a remnant in waxed whorls
from the taper she blew out.
Tones of voices who knew you
that now want to know me
keep-sake vultures with clichés
Simon Elvin cards with chain shop sympathies.
Night and Narnia lampposts
visits to your wardrobe doors
clothes where your limbs left a scent
that hang in polythene to trap it.
Turning left as I wake
the five second husband birth
till realization kills him
and a stranger is born into hell.
The sixth death is the strangers
It will be real and beautiful
consignment to a promise -
half fulfilled.
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