Stillbirth

In the evening glow

I kicked the stones into the river.

Edmund steered me this way and that,

Quiet as a thought, vast as the sunset sky.

This is when stars shift and time falls

And angels tumble in confusion.

The system’s broken down.

Or has it?

Part of a wider far more logical mechanism,

He floats

Into and out of this world

In the same airless breath.

And what is Edmund?

A weight, a time,

A monitored level of haemoglobin;

A flock of photographs like butterflies to drop.

A person.

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