The Shadow Cycle
A collection of poems featuring my shadow.
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Shadowless
He knows I want to talk about you - that I've been thinking about you the whole time. He can sense your ghost lying at my side in the grass.
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Disenchanted
It's a longer one, but I really appreciate you taking the time to read ;) I stand before the mirror, let my dress crumple to the floor, strip until all that is left is my necklace...
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Forgetting
I fled England like a fugitive. Exiled, I flew south to a forgotten corner of France to tuck myself away in a world of orchards and stone cottages.
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Unclaimed
We share a cigarette, moving closer; inch by inch, drag by drag. Until his arm is around my waist, and he kisses me...
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These Are The Days
We find ourselves huddled on a bench, by the Thames, opposite Big Ben - his bright, white face mirrored, not only in the river, but in the moon, pastelled onto a cloud at his side.
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Le Grand Départ
One, final ritual, before the 'Big Push' - 'Le Grand Départ...' I carefully remove all the posters, photos and cards from my bedroom walls.
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Relic
I remember the way you lifted the glinting, silver pendant like a trapdoor - surprised to find a mark the metal had carved into my skin...
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