Monday, May 8, 2017

The girl in the perfumed slippers # 103 Claine Keily

Some sweep menageries
into garbage bags
tear down
weep blood like Jesus
return to empty houses
in readiness to watch
the news

They smoke cigarettes
as they pace
between the kitchen
and the bedroom
and never let in
the girl in the
perfumed slippers
who laughs and plays Bach
while drinking gin

Instead they sleep alone
and awake staring up
waiting for the ceiling
to give in

8 comments:


  1. Me for the girl
    in perfumed slippers
    under the ceiling
    where she makes love

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  2. Those slippers/are left under the pillow/reminding of how/some things go beyond ceilings. Lovleyxxx

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  3. 'return to empty houses in readiness to watch the news'. Great line Claine!

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  4. Fantastic Claine! I want to see more of the girl in the perfumed slippers , laughing, playing Bach and drinking gin :) I loved the line about the empty house and the news too - fabulous line!

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  5. So love this poem Claine - I keep coming back to read it. So powerful!

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