royness ( ' ' ) Poems

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
...

A stone is thrown. A window
Shivers briefly in its frame, shatters
Into fragments, falls in a rain
Of glittering crystal.
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She comes to me
in the early evening twilight
drawn by breath or scent -
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He comes home to find Grandma, still –
sitting amidst the papers and magazines,
the dirtied grey furniture,
the crumbling walls and curtains stained
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He wished for her
and here she stands -
naked and blameless,
ineffable, immaculate-
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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.
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She seemed too huge to be dead.
Flopsy, our rabbit,
Our mad albino –
frozen stiff like meat from the freezer.
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beyond the lighthouse
treading water with her toes -
pockets full of stones
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Alone in the aquarium,
I stare at the fish through glass

Their movements follow my fingers
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Death drops the hourglass -
it shatters across the floor, sand spills
out over shards of glass -
every grain an hour.
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