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I wrote something for National Poetry Day last Thursday, based on the idea of “ekphrasis”, as covered by Amy Newman. Some Google detective work will help you find the original inspiration.
Love Lasts ForeverThis cruel negative
Is the taxidermist’s brutal revenge:
Your bones
Offering symbiosis in death
To refute our plain mortality.Rendered inside out but
(so as not to cause offence)
Cut clean over the last three years,
Your fossil jaw
Mimicking the strata,
the slow subsidence
And the pain of final freedom.Not true! our artist friend retorts.
Let the spotlight illuminate the palms before your feet
As by your sacrifice we exonerate the sins
Of destruction, the wheeling bluster of life.Either way, I blink with the wry humour
I recognise so often in these scenes.
Animal empathy reduced to the thrall of creation.
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