OUR COLLABORATIVE POEM

Posted by Rupert Mallin on 19 June 2007 at 20:55

Tags: collaboration InPrint Poets

Rouge gills burn, gouge word of mouth:

Moon’s long veins pull the sinews

of the waves - open wounds

Wherein fish flash blades

The leaving left

a half-hearted wave,

its wake knowing

the heart works in sand and cliché

Sharp shoreline shells

a broken battlefield

fragile, soft-centred

lovers absent without leave

Creatures whose bones become sand,

become castles and moats

moulded by small hands

building fortresses again, again

in blaze of August sun

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