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royness ( ' ' ) Poems
He comes home to find Grandma, still –
sitting amidst the papers and magazines,
the dirtied grey furniture,
the crumbling walls and curtains stained... more »
She comes to me
in the early evening twilight
drawn by breath or scent -... more »
A stone is thrown. A window
Shivers briefly in its frame, shatters
Into fragments, falls in a rain
Of glittering crystal.... more »
Stuck rigid on his stick, he stands,
scraggly hat and a head full of straw -
blank button eyes stare straight ahead,
never blinking, seeing nothing... more »
He wished for her
and here she stands -
naked and blameless,
ineffable, immaculate-... more »
New auras delight, plain odours leaguer
And divans are preferred to tombs.
The strangest flowers sour the effect
Enclosing our new sister, the sow from below.... more »
She seemed too huge to be dead.
Flopsy, our rabbit,
Our mad albino –
frozen stiff like meat from the freezer.... more »
Passing
He comes home to find Grandma, still –
sitting amidst the papers and magazines,
the dirtied grey furniture,
the crumbling walls and curtains stained
with age,
the slow reek of tobacco smoke.
Her sunken eyes do not see him.
Her stunned brain wonders
at nothing. She stares at the television.
Something is passing –
her skin is parched and worn,
dry and thin as paper.
Already, her walk is skeletal.
She skulks about the house,
hunched and broken –
her speech is a raspy whisper.
The children cannot look at her
and shiver at her ...
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