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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Poems
Mar 2016
Barricade Love Song
I am eating when you call.
I let the phone ring out and the answerphone click,
and flick you off, a speck of dust on my shoulder.
I treat you like an unpinned
grenadine, desperate to throw you into the crowd,
but fear makes me clutch you, tight. As I place the ***** of my feet on burning coals. One step, then another, mind over matter.
Until the words that we once held deep in our throats burst through the dam
and I walk into the sea loaded with rocks, drinking the salty ocean one gulp at a time, so I don't have to turn around and
face you
Written by
Emma Elisabeth Wood
F/UK
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