Photography © Linda Matthews-Denham

 

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I could write ten thousand paragraphs
and I could bleed it
would anyone believe me then
to draw the shape of my heart in the sand
in the morning we were through
could you tell me about the play
or the time of night
it was to set you off
to remember her and not me
face to face
it was a pretty fist
it was your memory
your blue bruise
taking it with you to the grave
about risk
and the fall to the side
and you were in demand

 

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it is empty inside with every shade of your unrest
something so difficult to describe in the pretty tones
you write of a revolution where I know nothing of your face
the true colors that are displayed in secret
like things that lie in wait to be unleashed into a sun that burns
the space where she said I was nothing as I remember this many years later
I pour it into a divisive language that is never revealed to the literary world
this is an emotion believed and spoken but not as heartbroken
colored or feeling is what they call it
tied to the name of a despair we all know
of what you cling to is something not definitive
your drowned blue eyes are silenced

 

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terrified by those years of simple neglect
what you ingested into your own body
you say you were born
with born knowledge in you
than you asked for answers
now you have him and memory

 

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen and has been published in Zygote Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Juice, the Collective Consciousness, Voices, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Bakwa Magazine and in the online journals BlazeVox, Kaleidoscope Online, the Bombay Review and Kritikos: A Postmodern Journal of Cultural Sound, Text & Image. She participated in the high school mentorship program with the Manitoba Writers Guild, working with canadian poet, Carol Rose. She won first prize in a poetry contest sponsored by the Writers Collective and an honorable mention in a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.

Linda Matthews-Denham lives in the countryside along the Thames River in Berkshire, England. Her passion is photography, photo restoration and art history of Paris. She also works very closely with many British authors restoring images for publication.