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Fishbones, by Adrian McRobb

21/2/2021

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FOOD
I came home late to the apartment, stealing in with a bag of guilty dreams.
Finding you in the bath, overflowing with betrayal, broken glass on white tiles tablets in the sink, smiling teeth from the plughole of its mouth.
Your arm over rim in supplication dripping life in hasty revenge, I held your head to stop you slipping.
But, you slipped anyway, a shadow passing too quickly...

Found your scarf today destroying me again, each blue and yellow inch, an unwelcome jack-in-a-box.
Taking me back a year, and memories I had kept in unlabelled boxes, flooding back in a surging wave of sewage and broken trust.
That regretted hour of forensic notebooks and flashing lights, missing you every day.
A remembered bin, its sarcastic lips firmly closed on the remnants of a last meal, smoked salmon we would never share again...fishbones!
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Sue Clayton
23/2/2021 03:02:39 am

Fish bones. The very word leaves me as unsettled as did your story of a life lost. Enjoyed it.

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Adrian McRobb
23/2/2021 04:03:47 am

Pleased you liked it...

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Mary Wallace
23/2/2021 06:16:02 am

Adrian, this is a really good poem. Evocative. The scarf, destroying you again, is a powerful line.

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Adrian McRobb
24/2/2021 08:25:22 pm

Thank you Mary

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Padmini Krishnan
26/2/2021 05:10:50 am

Scary, but very well-written

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