Tuesday 18 September 2018

final resting place
squashed between pages
a dead fly
****
a dead fly
squashed between pages...
but who closed to book?
****
scraping a dead fly*
from the old book
I read on

Published (2018)  ephemerae Volume1, C, page 50

LHA Ref:
ephemerae 1.C, December 2018

* at the suggestion of Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy the original first line was changed from:
'scraping the dead fly'*

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