The tree stands, alone
Naked in the dark
The courtyard is silent now
Lies of past glory whisper through the branches
- which are breaking -
Read MoreThese hands are not his hands,
they are my hands.
But sometimes in my mind they are his hands,
and other times they are not hands at all,
they are claws.
Read MoreThese are the secrets I cannot keep:
How she bends over the world to plant a goodnight’s kiss,
Read MoreThere was once something in the woods,
Ever so wild and free,
A being no one dared to name,
But they all craved to see.
Read More10:32—How are you?
I want to tell him I’m watching
a murder—the boy in the carpark blowing out the brains
of a dandelion clock,
my hand a foam finger in the window.
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