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CLOSED DOOR Joanna M. Weston Vancouver Island |
If I open the door, I will catch the bomb, bury it inside my ears and only I will hear it explode, only I will die in that particular silence. If I keep the door shut death will be outside this room. I will not know the names scattered over my garden, letters pulled onto small stones as markers for pieces of children. I open the door, let the lull into my eyes, catch the explosion and am buried under a name not my own. No one remembers the smallness under settled dust, broken bricks. Joanna M. Weston [Return to Psychopoetica home page] ©The contents of this page are copyright protected.
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