Sari

Earth colours.

they tell me of paths

and footprints

and a time that will never come again.

they tell me how we

dissolved

into you and I.

They tell me

of a blessing

and a curse

and how this strange conjugation

yielded a moment

so eminently erasable.

[From my collection 'Threads', shortlisted for the Gratiaen Award 2007]

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