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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Birth

Paul Tristram

She sat staring intently
at the cigarette burn on her thumb.
Peered sideways at it
inquisitively
then sadly smiled.
Touched it gently,
felt the wound alive,
painful and tender.
She was satisfied,
she’d given birth
to something real at last.

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