Handiwork   

You fashioned our world one Friday
from strips ripped from the supplement –
moulded our lives in plaster of Paris

stuck us to the middle of the dining room table,
a streak of calcium leaking onto your chair.
I expected you to put a flag on the highest peak,

but the silence shifted, lifted itself off the table,
scurried round the house scooping up 
thoughts and dead skin, dragging them

upstairs to where I sit waiting.
The light here wedges itself under the door
and even though I lean my full weight it doesn’t budge.

There is a manmade world under my fingernails;
and I can’t help putting them in my mouth.

Abegail Morley

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