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War Photographer by delilahdesanges

I like to think that when my ears / are turned in the right direction / I can still hear the calls for help / that theirs ignored. 248 words

In spite of mourning, mornings, and Morden. by delilahdesanges

When seasick, or homesick, take this / simple pill; after plague and flood, / fire and mayor, wedding, funeral, / election, and bills - / London is standing, still; 100 words

Funeral Procession for the Old Way of Thinking by delilahdesanges

Won’t matter a damn when the guest-eye of the sky / sinks her red-lidded sleep over the birth of / the stinking Thames; 328 words

four-velocity is a four-dimensional tangent vector by delilahdesanges

Calendars are the enemy, tucked against / the cracks in my defences; each step takes us / further from the battle and close to the precipice. 278 words

but i thought i'd wake up by delilahdesanges

A doppleganger arose from my grave, / bearing handfuls of Death’s silvery sand, / and my absence was not remarked upon again. / Though its skin bore none of my scars, 302 words

This infernal catawauling by delilahdesanges

We’ll make our own language from necessity; 146 words

there is no one present in the sweeping gesture by delilahdesanges

a man who is coming apart / comes down to the beach where he was made / to drift back into sand dunes / he slips from his feet the brackish / memory of shoes and opens his chest / to the monotony of … 220 words

Message In A Bottle: To The Girl On The Wrong Side O... by delilahdesanges

I will explore the mountains / the blunt peaks and snow-spattered heights / of you. 75 words

40 Days Without Sleep by delilahdesanges

I will sell you / I will sell you all out / For the chance to lay my head in the lap / of the woman I married 535 words

Uanna's Other Face by delilahdesanges

Jana’s mouth encompasses prayer, / all the words so holy and sweet; / Janus speaks with his wife’s lips, / of the clay upon her dainty feet; 150 words

En Lahem Elohim by delilahdesanges

אין להם אלוהים 43 words

Hedgehog by delilahdesanges

At first a discarded shoe, / Huddled lonely under tangerine buzz / The streetlight’s browning uniformly. 133 words

Abstinence/Absence by delilahdesanges

Cruel and inconstant gods, I tell you, / I know the waiting game. 368 words

The Atheist by delilahdesanges

I will sing you the rocks whose secrets are unlocked / with radioactive decay; my chorus will be the mayflies, 312 words

And In The End We Fill A Bodybag by delilahdesanges

And the voices on the radio prophecy / Only the movements from one hour to the next; / Chess board battle pieces weaving / the tapestry of continuance; the war / is unending, and no one is free. 229 words

Because I Howled Too Often by delilahdesanges

And am I the same as all my kind / Bare-boned, bare-toothed, alone / And am I, like them, colour-blind 256 words

They Lied About Carthage by delilahdesanges

Lie if you have to / but take the books from between your teeth / and the muzzle from my face / and tell me in your own words / how I got into this place. 315 words

Biro-Punctured Womb: Splatty's Elegy by delilahdesanges

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Gravesend by delilahdesanges

and I will learn to love the things / I can’t avoid and I will learn I / am magic turning pain into joy - 206 words

Phlebotomy: Poison Veins by delilahdesanges

And ink, my blood, calls back the void 121 words

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