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Words sprout wings

Oz Hardwick

Words sprout wings, escape their paper
cages. Your head spins as they dart
like hummingbirds, tongues flicking to lick
the flowers on the wallpaper, the ceiling rose.

You sit, stiff-backed, rapt, wrapped in sheets
of blank white which unroll to the floor,
across the carpet, and into the waste paper basket.

You need to take control, so raise the gauze net
you never noticed you were carrying, and catch them,
one by one, until you finally realise you are

a Victorian explorer (the moustache and hat
should have given it away years ago), so you pin
each one in a glass case, in its allotted place,
determined to make them mean something.

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