The Magnolia review - volume 1, Issue 2, July 2015

  1

 at the hairdresser

before

her first day of chemo...

she picked up one shorn curl

from the floor

2

moaning

about my misspent

youth ...

galling rhythm on his cup

with the teaspoon

3

snowing constantly

for three days ...

a cassock makes path

to my neighbours

through the snowdrifts

4

magnolia buds

across the window

shape

a sudden snow layer -

preemies born room

5

paralysis

in remission —

tempting the ants

to climb

my leg

6

funeral procession

gobbled up

by a sand storm...

your last exhale kept home

in a red balloon

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