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by Richard Trotter

Once again, wrinkling spidery ribcage
shudders like a sniper, blind
suddenly standing on cardboard steps.
Once again, a heart that sinks
like a warhead, dead in the sea
dropped from the simplest ship of weakness,
when the innocent cuts you carve
would heal in the morning if I need you
and every pore was branded for you.

12/19/2003

Author's Note: i wrote this today on my break at work, where I did a 13 hour shift.

Posted on 12/19/2003
Copyright © 2024 Richard Trotter

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Stephanie Kent on 12/23/03 at 02:22 AM

Gorgeous. . ."a heart that sinks like a warhead, dead in the sea dropped from the simplest ship of weakness". . .I love this.

Posted by Leslie Ann Eisenberg on 12/24/03 at 05:56 AM

fantastical imagery.

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