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Friday, 28 August 2009

Fifty Odd Words No. 32

He whispers against the grain of hard laughter; his speech is a knot in the pine, lacquered with unsaid thoughts.

The raucous grows.

She untwists him into serpentine stories spaced with loaded silences.

Humid breath seeps into hearing; a hair rises to attention.

Her eyes flicker in a butterfly’s death throes.

He grins.

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