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Amanda Hammar

Jailbirds

Jailbirds

Jailbirds

Our footsteps scrape along
the granite surface of our days.
Your callous/ed fingers
careless across my ribs.

Abrasions of the ordinary.

Our bed a prison now,
a shared stretch
of solitary confinement.
Our proximity a lie.
Amanda Hammar

Amanda Hammar

(Zimbabwe, 1959)

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Jailbirds

Our footsteps scrape along
the granite surface of our days.
Your callous/ed fingers
careless across my ribs.

Abrasions of the ordinary.

Our bed a prison now,
a shared stretch
of solitary confinement.
Our proximity a lie.

Jailbirds

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