It takes a lifetime
to press.
And there’s no atonement
but for the very rebellion of being
in the flesh, I’ve seen birds
hang so heavy.
You were here,
it happened.
Your curtain still ripples
in the midday light.
Published in Open Arts Forum on .
Nathalie Spaans lives in Amsterdam and works as a public attendant in a cool museum. In day to day life she finds it hard to convey what's going on. With writing she tries to make sense of it.
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