draft poem from April this year
In my castle nothing bad can happen.
In my castle nothing moves.
A dull blade points
to the place in the courtyard
where they’re filling you with snow.
You’re on your knees,
stiff and pale as
the moon itself,
with a smile just as dumb.
Nothing hurts.
This is how things are here:
I give you up. I
give you up. I watch you fall:
a whitetail kissed between the eyes
a cool white star
a lone bramble of young holly lodged there in the snow.
It doesn’t hurt me.
It doesn’t hurt.
But they’ve found a way
to thaw the ice.
And we both know
it isn’t pretty.
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claudette
Oh wow