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Avoidance by Margaret Kiernan

Avoid like the Covid
amateur dramatics in your head space
the rust can make grim hearing
reap apathy,
rivers carrying paper-boxes
coffee cups
plastic virgin statues
neither valuable nor rare.
A homeless man in a long
chic coat
rants-aloud at
water-logged baby strollers
acting as sieves.

Arriving darkness
as he eats stale bread
tram tracks, animated
under streetlights
houses shaped, against the dissolving
bromide of twilight
burrs of deadly nightshade
cling to his trouser legs
sycamore leaves splash his face,
A tunnel of long shadows
pulls him down.

The idling train in the station hoots
harried seagulls dip and dive
time to get out of town
move on
follow my shadow, westward.

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