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334 · May 2015
I don't know you anymore
dazmb May 2015
your face strange to me
in the gap between night and day
feeding the silence I’ve learnt by heart
of an inevitable end, and echo
325 · May 2015
Drunk
dazmb May 2015
there is no revelation
held-breath or
open sky here
just a street corner
bearing witness
and daring me
to believe
323 · May 2015
Firestarter
dazmb May 2015
daylight never reveals
the truth of things
wait till night
and cordite flaring
of a match's strike
then reach into the shadow
319 · May 2015
There is a magic
dazmb May 2015
…that looks to keep secret
what was said in the margins
out of earshot and unrecorded
fragments of words deleted that
get the job done…
298 · May 2015
Demolition Job
dazmb May 2015
poetry tears the house down
make what you will
of the wreckage
287 · May 2015
Bedside
dazmb May 2015
you had a fever
rambling hot then cold
just crying wolf, you'd say
before hallucinating again
at the dark
come to swallow you whole
280 · May 2015
Shame
dazmb May 2015
you can never go back
to the rooms you once knew
their ghosts are sworn silent
but enduring
as the fear of a child
lost in the gloom
256 · May 2015
Second language
dazmb May 2015
the things I do
in borrowed rooms
but never speak of
241 · May 2015
I woke first
dazmb May 2015
morning birdsong
I accept grace in the moment
watch you sleep
let my love for you silently reach
into an endless horizon of sunlight

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