"All but Death, can be Adjusted --"
Emily Dickinson
1.
Deciduous. Unrecognisable. Faded.
A crumpled katsura leaf before the fall
to a forest of flourishing fuschia.
From it coming an ambush of silence,
as if the waking from a dream
or the thought of death at death's door.
2.
The first tear fell in a sluiced rush
of diminuendo. Her keepsake,
the necklace of St. Christopher,
mid-flight to the arch of her neck.
Just kissed, yet cold. Like twilight.
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