Deborah Cox

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1.

The waters break

as a life writ in water
...

Her castle walls are falling:

one day each brick shall call
...

Fissures fall as a deluge

straight from a pitch-black sky;
...

Nobody traced a sonnet with any other view

than the intense one you cast on one you pitied and then slew -
...

5.

The folds in his neck

are sorer, hotter, wetter,
...

Colouring glass,
green light's unmoving
that the green light might pass.
...

Salt has turned to sand

and shelled out silences
...

Formlessness is emptiness

for words are made of matter:
...

Stunned to wakefulness

as if contracting too fast,
...

Rocking the baby

as a gap between curtains
...

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Birth

The waters break

as a life writ in water

is begun:


pain gathers

to a massive wave

and crashes down


then gathers again -

in thirty six hours

it will be done.



Stab and flare,

love's membrane

bursts its best,


as, betrayed by a kiss,

it splits

deliverance / a mother's bliss.

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