Evidence of a Near Life Experience

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Kenneth2816
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Evidence of a Near Life Experience

#1 Post by Kenneth2816 » 23 May 2019, 11:29

If they had bundled you home
in blue flannel, crepe paper draped
from walls, your shrill cry filling
the room with balloons, moon-faced
ratcheting the air like an upturned beetle,
fat and white as a thumb left in water,
I would have been afraid.

The nurse tapped her watch, covered
your eyes with a towel, blotted your toes.
All I ever knew of you was a name
tattooed on a piece of vellum,
and one black footprint
stepping off the page.


Old one I'm dusting off and considering submitting

BobBradshaw
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Re: Evidence of a Near Life Experience

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 26 May 2019, 21:50

I like it.. the images are fresh

Kenneth2816
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Re: Evidence of a Near Life Experience

#3 Post by Kenneth2816 » 27 May 2019, 01:02

Thanks

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