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Post by Tomorrow's Writers on Apr 28, 2012 21:46:57 GMT
Five pounds fifty in change, exactly, a library card on its date of expiry.
A postcard stamped, unwritten, but franked,
a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.
A brace of keys for a mortise lock, an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.
A final demand in his own hand,
a rolled up note of explanation planted there like a stray carnation
but beheaded, in his fist. A shopping list.
A giveaway photograph stashed in his wallet, a keepsake banked in the heart of a locket.
no gold or silver, but crowning one finger
a ring of white unweathered skin. That was everything.
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