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Auditioning for Replacements |
| Artist: |
The Last Big Secret
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| Copyright: |
Caroline Fox 2003 |
| Description: |
After a brief romance, Traf and I were seperated for 10 years. This poem reflects on that period.
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Auditioning for Replacements
It rolled uncontrollably out,
a brick road of other colour.
Stand-ins into misfit costumes –
Lions, Scarecrows, Tin Men –
into our homes, they came
to plaster faults, shore-up hope,
fill voids with other
skin, bone, hair.
How could they learn unwritten lines?
(though they had their moments)
even we believed it sometimes
with fingers blocking ears
to mirrors' voices, critics' words.
The show would go on.
Meanwhile, I stored you in my loft
weighted under a box of dusty grief,
pulled the trap door shut behind me.
You mislaid me in your shed
with garden twine, a jumble
of plastic flower pots, behind
a tangled fishing reel, an old coffee-jar
of hooks and nails, like something
you could not identify,
that might be useful one day.
Something you were not ready for.
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