Friday, January 18, 2019

Tug Dumbly - Wait a While


Wait a While

‘It can take fifty years for a body to rot
in the ground at Rookwood.’  

A necropolis of kind dirt, no hurry. 
But the even gentlest earth
has its patience stretched

flesh finally deserts bone
like a slow cooked curry.


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