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Something Old, Something New
You send me back my wedding dress
20 years too late…
wrapped not in finest tissue
confetti tumbling from its folds
nor draped across a lover’s arms
regret pressed to every empty seam
not folded at all
but jammed like stinking gym shorts
into this case, too small
compressed, flattened
obligatory bow adrift
sad reminder of all that was.
An ivo...
Wednesday 2nd March 2011 9:00 pm
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