Sternum Rub

Mar 30, 2026

Something in me

is tender to you

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May I ask how you are?

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         I guess not

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The geranium on the window sill

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has lost its bloom again

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I know you have forgiven me the way

I am always a shovel stood in a

bank of snow, a job unfinished and

half-buried

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When I woke today it was because

something stung and I knew

I’d been dreaming of you

Victorian Boy Ghost