BONEYARD

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Shovel the earth &

shovel it deep

Lower into the sepulchre

Surround the burrowed

space w/ lilacs & eulogies--

Family tears

Seal the earth up again

for a child had been

consigned to rest here

For another child

embittered

had shown him his most

glorified toy from youth

his lifelong phobia:

The receiving ...

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SERAPH WINGS

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She--English student-to-be

He--Art student

Accessorised well in cool black

Clothes as two roving assassins would

But they weren't assassins

They were just young, creative, self-expressive

Goths in love, bonded souls

With a beautiful future ahead of them

They both enjoyed the quietude before midnight

In a walk through Stubbylee Park--

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