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published in Black Flame, Hearing Eye, 2005,

ISBN No. 1 870841 25 5

Petals

 

This is what lies behind the brick wall

which bulges in his dreams at night

behind the wall she has faced in the day.  

 

It is the screw of the knife in the stomach.  

It is the suck and pull of not being, of no one, of nobody, nothing.

It is death.  

 

They are lovers in bed their bodies wrapped around each other.

They have set themselves up against the pit.  

They have reached out to make—love.  

 

It is desire which turns the knife around upon despair,

moistening her lips

parting her open, and

 

in kissing his dark body

making more than their separate parts:

petals opening amidst the oceans of nothing.

 

Sara Boyes

 

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"Wild Flowers", Stride, (from Sara)

anthologies:
"earth ascending"
Stride;
"Work. An Anthology"
Katabasis;
"In the Company of Poets"
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