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change

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‘your accent wrong’

’ do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place ‘

‘too blue swapped for a cool grey ‘

‘originally, and I hesitate ‘

‘but then you forget, or don’t recall, or change, see your brother swallow a slug feel only a skelf of shame’

‘you see we were passionate then, in those halcyon days, unwrapping eachother rapidly like presents, fast food.’

‘separate beds’

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love

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’ like the careful undressing of love’

’ I give you an onion’

’ i think of him in certain lights dawn late afternoon and once a bowl of apples stopped me dead’

’ I miss most even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch’
‘ you see we were passionate then in those halcyon days unwrapping eachother rapidly like presents fast food’

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character

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she is humerous

‘at least i said, you’ll be able to give up smoking for good’

’ the toilet i didn’t mind’

she is demanding
‘ take it’
‘ here’

’ he started to laugh’

she is confused about her identity
‘ now where do you come from, originally and I hesitate

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setting

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‘your accent wrong’

’ the classroom glowed like a sweet shop’

‘rural England ‘

‘fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of children running in a nightmare heat’
‘ a window opened with a long pole’

‘the chalky pyramids rubbed into dust’

‘the laugh of a bell swung by a running child’

’ corners which seem familiar, leading to unimagined pebble dashed estates’

‘the streets, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live anymore’

‘we’d a caravan in the wilds’

’ and then his footprints, glistening next to the rivers path.’

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imagery

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’ my parents anxiety stirred like a loose tooth in my head’
‘ my dream milk burned in my breasts’
‘ it’s platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring ‘
‘half formed ghost’
‘ a hundred agonies in black and white’
‘the only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he were a priest preparing to intone a mass’
‘the readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre - lunch beers’
‘it will blind you with tears like a lover’
‘one day a hare hung from a larch, a beautiful lemon mistake’
‘like a child who stood at the end of summer’

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loss

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’ do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place ‘

‘now where do you come from? Strangers ask. Originally? And I hesitate.’

’ I miss most, even now, his hands his warm hands on my skin, his touch’

’ that was the last straw’

‘like a child who stood at the end of summer and dipped a net in a green, erotic pond’

’ but stared at your parents, appalled’ ?

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heart break

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’ I think of him in certain lights dawn late afternoon and once a bowl of apples stopped me dead’
‘ my dream milk burned in my breasts’
‘ that was the last straw’
‘ it will blind toy with tears like a lover’
‘ it will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief’

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contrast

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‘I am happy and sad’
‘ homesick, free’
‘possessive and faithful’
‘fierce kiss’
‘green erotic pond’

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