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The Glass Bride

John Grey

Why now do you hear her voice?
Why on the answering machine?

Or in the crackle of curled leaf underfoot?
Or where wind gathers like feathers, tickles your ear?

Hers was the face you loved
when no one in your crowd believed you.

Now her mouth is stripped of its belongings,
is the color of grapes and has gone to seed.

And her body is as fragile as glass.
One needle jab and it grew old in a moment.

The truth drops crumbs at your feet
like a pensioner feeding pigeons.

You have a power that has never been used.
And now, no surprise, it’s done with you.

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