"Litany of Scars - Notes to a Missing Lover"
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Watching a Nightmare
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tensed face
eyes
slit-open
gold and brown
hair
tumbles in
shadows
like cloud turning
somersaults
my sister in
anguish
trembles at the
feet
of some imagined
ogre
my sister, my child, my
friend
you told you thought I didn't
care
how could I tell
you
your rest in
peace
is worth my
life?
my sister,
asleep
squirms in a borrowed sleeping
bag
on my floor
my sister, alone in
sleep
- is this the only time to say
I love you?
- the only time to cry to see
you in such pain?
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1999
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