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Window

In common daylight
glass is reflective
windows opaque
to the outside world
only blameless blue
adhering to the surface

Then comes the sun’s low shame
shadows fall
ragged leaf shapes
tugged by desperate children’s whispers
cast those dark stains on the glass

open unspoken interiors
where fingers poke crevices
and apportion blame
rocking-horse laughs with terror in the night

Daddy hid his memory
in this ill-smelling sac
Don’t tell!
Daddy’s drawstring tastes so bad
the life-sac he gave me is too dirty
light fights shy
cruel empty window, no-one peeping.

 

 

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