Lot's Wife Edition 1 2016
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CREATIVE<br />
she resurfaced s m a t t e r i n g s of fallen freckles<br />
and other such whispers of old .<br />
by september<br />
her collection had doubled<br />
steadily increasing with every bristled toothbrush<br />
discarded jewellery box<br />
and a new pair of tiny socks so small that baby<br />
birds could have nested in each one<br />
thefirstfriday of that same month<br />
he arrived home early from work :<br />
walking up the garden path he st umbled<br />
on the bro ken earth<br />
confused He looked around Him<br />
noticing for the first time how the yard had been transformed<br />
the once trimmed carpet of lawn was now<br />
a pockmarked planet<br />
streaked red and sore by the emptying sun<br />
when He finally opened the front door<br />
He was greeted<br />
as always<br />
by delilah<br />
she stood in front of Him<br />
peering at Him with proud eyes<br />
He could barely see her behind the walled<br />
plethora of<br />
antiquities<br />
she had p<br />
iled at His feet<br />
That night<br />
there were no headheldIloveyous<br />
Instead the golf-torn turf was filled in :<br />
crevices were covered with golden hair, a broken houseshaped kennel,<br />
and the dirt was watered flat with pools of deep blue .<br />
That night<br />
he fell asleep singing the lyrics of Queen – seemingly to himself.<br />
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