nudi ?? Poems

A Golden Shovel after the poem 'dying' by Lucille Clifton (Mercy,2004) , for the children of Lucille & Fred Clifton

i know how deeply you grieved the day we had to go
that mourning as they forced us from our dear home
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content warning: child abuse

there is a photograph of us
in the garden me with a baby
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after Terrance Hayes, 'The Same City'

unloaded from car:
children, wellies, sandwiches, a blanket
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