Thursday, April 9, 2020

Once



The abandoned house I told you about, thrashed;
walls broken through, windows gone; no longer
the separation of outside from inside that makes it a house.

Everything’s strewn around: magazines, books, records;
now scattered jigsaw pieces of a life from the seventies 

except  a towel rail in the kitchen: three dish-clothes
still folded crisp as the morning newspapers,
beside them a pair of scissors hanging on a string.

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