To one man who may be concerned...

Collage by Gemma Wiseman
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Carry on Tuesday #18 ~ This week the prompt is the opening
sentence from Ehud Havazelet’s 2007 novel Bearing the Body:
The letter sat before him, unopened, propped against a coffee mug
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Monday Poetry Train Revisited #45
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Curly dark secrets
Propped against a coffee mug
Fathomless caverns
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He had moved to a new place
No one should find him
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He had closed the door
The windows wore blinds
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He chose to carve a new life
Without prison bars
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He had lost a love
Or did love lose him
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But shadows wander
Shadows haunt the subconscious
Letters are shadows
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Unopened war wounds
The letter sat before him
His mother reaching
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