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The Peonies
Away With Words, 2018
My poem, The Peonies, was featured in Away With Words: volume 2 and performed at the launch party at DIY Space for London.
The Peonies
When he next made love to his wife
He noticed a new tattoo
Spidering its way across her ribs
Peonies now bloomed
Where before had been
A well-known map of freckles and pores and scars
His wife, his territory
Turned from home to an unknowable landscape
In the time it takes for a stranger to brand you for life
‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ He asked
She smiled like an angler fish
And continued to rock backwards and forwards on top of him
A bobbing ship
On top of the ocean that had opened up between them
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