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Marrakech Watercolours (Free verse) by Caducus
I take my seven days
paint each of them yellow.
You take Monday
make it a watercolour
of blue and weeping.
Leaving you - your Daddy's shell
would be like Moon leaving tide.
Fish gill net death
pulsing silver mountains
on a starboard of scales,
by your Daddy's stench bucket.
Touch me
with ten tombstones.
Wake the dead in me
you love me like a dog
we need each other.
My seven days of your one.
You call me Daddy when I hold you,
forcing my hands away
from where Devils played
in the Spring of fifty six
until sixty seven
when you capsized
with his boat off Agadir.
Yasmine candles,
took us back to Marrakech,
through their burning
you remembered us,
how we were,
things we said,
and that one night in eight years
you painted our son yellow
and Devils and Daddy's slept
till deaths watercolour brought
your cod eye glance
staring east to an Atlantic tomb.
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