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Marianne Daniels

Splendered, walking half in sleep,

and with red glasses cupping teeth,

I am a stranger -

photographed like a chimney mooring it's house with poison

steaming it's frames and running the charcoal down my spine.

These are my lines.

No fashion on a sleeve - I have worn it with plague,

smothering mad, and falling like a crippled ballerina's smile.

I ...

Wednesday 30th December 2009 5:53 pm

I am an amputee, a vortex. A lampshade frayed

like the hems of the eunuch soldiers, the powdered women

who took war to work and made a holiday of men.

Retund rouge mistakes? Perhaps not. No. No I am not one of them.

But my limbs ache with stretching

and I sometimes wish to be a tail, a thick wardrobe

to curl his spine up into mine; a soft grey to douse

th...

Thursday 24th December 2009 2:32 am