We sat on the porch that winter and
talked of murder, imagined bodies trapped
beneath the breaking crust of the field.

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Not people die but worlds die in them —Yevtushenko   On your brave, calm journey out of life the objects in the room have lost all substance: the water jug, the wafer biscuits, the artificial orchid that I watered.   Your oxygen machine keeps time with loyal breath and beat: strong, soft, soft, soft … Within the hospice ward we are all back inside the womb again; a mother’s heart and lungs are counting our slow time.   At first we hear the notes inside our heads, the hummed harmonics of a distant choir, a sonic quirk behind the automated […]

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