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V: Storm sense

They saw forked lightening in the field And Annie said Look But he had forgotten how to see And she alone bathed in electric night They heard drum...
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10 Stages of my Woman

1. She is born: eyes welded shut with screams (hers and her mother's), full of tiny fingernails and fragments of heart. Her father, drunk, slumps against the radiator. 2. She learns a new skill:

Field Pylons

From the grass roots the pylons rise, glinting sky. Cars speed by and by - the clouds blank us. Trees sleep with their womb burden while the pylons go ever upwards. Green truck, trailing hooks; there is no music but cars speed by and by.

Amazing Grace

She cannot ebb or taste the clear sky. Grace has fallen, gold spilling into the grass (her gold dew). She is nothing now, over down-trodden, into...

Without realising: Monologue

I wake - I think of you. Those two things have become one. I can no longer be conscious without you on the brain (you, you, you). Not excluding when...

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