tough, very.
Doug
On 21-Dec-06, at 7:57 AM, Heather Taylor wrote:
> It's the waiting that kills,
> a Christmas hung with
> cancer decorations -
> leopard spotted lungs,
>
> swollen mid-drifts,
> ghosts hiding in the marrow
> of hips and ribs.
> The spine readies itself
>
> as a final playing field while we
> prepare for the months ahead
> and tell ourselves that death
> is just another Santa Claus.
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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O deceptive mouth
covering up
for the heart like that.
Jenny Bornholdt
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