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Sonnet for skirts


‘When bitterness ousts us
I’ll remember THE DRESS,
your shifts and your tunics.

You’ll think of my fear
of your need to co-ordinate.’
‘Wrong version. Dead

love is divided
more like a train
so seats can’t be accessed

from both ends.’ ‘But style
drains us. Our words just
breed wordiness.’

‘But remember the sleeper,
when we took words off?’