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in
collection Brittle Bones, July 2008,
Salt,
ISBN 978-1-84471-402-5
Brittle Bones
birds’ legs, dried
stalks
a
Chinese vase, a baby’s wave
slivers
of green on dead laburnum
tracks
translucent up an arm
chalk
line on a pavement, a child’s logic
fingers
pressing a wine glass stem
change
of key on the downbeat
worn
paths tracing the grass
a
moon thumbprinted on a light sky
an
old woman’s face, her knuckles
strands
of breath on a sharp morning
cracked
glaze on a bedroom jug
its
pattern of blue ivy and pouting lip
the
roots I clutch at on the way up
Janet Fisher
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poetry favourites:
The Poetry
Business;
Salt
Publishing
and in
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shop
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collections -
"Brittle
Bones",
Salt;
"Women Who Dye Their Hair,
and
"Listening
to Dancing",
Smith/Doorstop
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