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Anatomy of a moment

Kathleen Patricia Kavanagh

Cut throat memories fill the air,
close to tears, blinking hard.
Shed the skin, reveal inside
nothing new, imperfect tide
slow amition burnt a hole
invade the purposeless dream
i never had...
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Submitted on September 17, 2009

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Scheme ABCCDEF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 185
Words 32
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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