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Best Stricture Poems


Stricture
A clearing vision fails.
Nothing is what it seems.
Your inheritance, scuffed
lenses, ammonia, sins
of a grandmother’s house.
Of a grandmother’s house
nothing departs unchanged.
Elbows, knees and knuckles
scraped raw by scour-pads,
solvent, sting of scrubbed air....

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Categories: stricture, childhood, family, introspection,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things