After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou

Author:Anthony Anaxagorou [Anaxagorou, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908058737
Publisher: Penned in the Margins

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beyond the first door she lays looped

around two beams of light, beneath the city

cork-bones rattle the troubled

after dark he paces the road, rewiring

half of each hour, yelling Aisha upwards,

his beard a full cloud punching air

perhaps grief is our way of keeping the dead

to ourselves, perhaps I should consider

relocating, my therapist suggested

when I asked what he thought of home

my right leg unable to still itself

a Baldwin quote at the ready

my grandmother has forgotten my name

looking wild around my face as if it’s a case

housing some famous fossil in a museum

I’m unable to hold my mother’s breaking,

I find a corner where I cradle my phone

furiously tapping on any photo showing teeth

my son couldn’t stop thanking me for buying him

a watch, I love you daddy, at this I cried

becoming another rescued animal in his hands

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