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Memories of my Brother VIII
One day you took my shoulders
Between your hands
And peeled back the years between us
Like orange rind
You geld on tight to the fringes of my collar bone
And set free a tooth
That had been chewing my gum
For weeks
So I could eat a tuna sandwich
One evening I ruled a sunset garden
From a tree you'd climbed further
And the lawn was bristles
And the colour pink sat upon it
Like meringue on a melting cake
We conversed with a girl who'd hung herself
From the neighbours' window boxes
She told us that she ate leaves
So I reached for some sore of freshness
The could leak green upon my tongue
You said she was lying
But she was MY next-door-neighbour-girl
So I made her tell the truth
As she swung from a lapped
Pane of glass
And laughed.
One night our feet tangled
With each others'
Into question marks and commas
That punctured the conversation
Like pellets as we pencilled
Our thoughts on the ceiling
And you spoke to me in nonsense
And I spoke back
Our own language
Chaffed our lips and spilt like wine
From a broken glass -
Onomatopoeically
And we knew what we were saying
Because we'd counted out
Each garbled noise
To mean:
'We're foreigners - you'll never understand.'
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