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Shoulders

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I remember staring

past your shoulder.

I remember reading to you 

the lines you have now left

in another's sand. 

I read your words as 

some acknowledgement,

acknowledgement of its past

though our shoulders

were always in the way.

I apologise for this.

My miss-spellings are 

my way of saying sorry. 

 

words and foto  T Carroll

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Mon 25th Aug 2014 16:04

You certainly introduce some odd twists that are usually elusive; like the 'miss-spellings' which I think is a metaphor, but I'm not sure. I'm thinking this poem deals with the really awful situation where two persons are always looking over the shoulder of the other, for the next 'better thing'. Or not.

Anaya

Mon 25th Aug 2014 11:50

You got mail

Anaya

Mon 25th Aug 2014 10:04

Neat

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