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THE RED POEM

 

only from Thought’s dolphin

gashed head to tail

and flung ashore dead

 

could Love have been birthed

washed in brine elevated

to stroll bare ashore

 

dripping her fluids

on dead fields to make

red anemones

 

            

 

from a word cadaver

sunk at sea

in a sewn hammock

 

she as idea

out of the cortex

bare arsed and lovely

 

drips on the floor

from her menstrual parts

the red poem

   

Alan Marshfield

   

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