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Oct 2013
Smeared blood into arrows
On the cheeks; white as diamond
Starched as hospital linen

Ladders up the spine
Where the ghosts of Raven's wings
Drift in mindless memory

As cast thee from a heavenly throne
To replace gold
With stone

And the heart-
With bone.
~
Rachael Sparrow
Written by
Rachael Sparrow  Wales
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