dust on her heart

cob-webbed her soul

weak eyes a toll of the hearts she stole

is she happy

counting the scalps?

yet mostly she scaled molehills, not Alps

easy meat, she

saw me coming

smile so sweet that chic chatter numbing

beauty's cool but

not forever

her sheen soon broke free of its tether

snug in wrinkles

a crown of wigs

her neck's...

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Dead Leaves

You once grew green

On lofty branches

Defiant against the clouds

Fluttering in the breeze

But now the tree has gone

Just a pale ghost of memory

And the sky is dominant

In my front windows

Your first death was brittle

Old man skeleton scratching

Whipping up your decline

In whorls of frustration

And when the rain came

Like falling tears

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Saw you again

over the wine and canapés,

and it was as though you

were dead to me all over again.

Your shining eyes were locked

with some other bloke’s and I

thought, ‘Shite, not again.’

Except there is no again,

and it’s my well-crafted lie

to believe that you were alive

to me. Then you came over and said ‘Hi’;

I echoed the same, lamely,

and you said how g...

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