Miss Scarlet Always Moves First
By rokkitnite
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In the Stockholm garret
I found an incomplete scrimshaw giraffe
carved from whalebone.
The four legs had been buffed
to a dentist's pearlescence,
the hooves neat as knives
but the neck was just a lumpen
corrugated talon
streaked with rot brown gullies.
I took the notebook from my waistcoat,
turned to a fresh page,
wrote the date
and 'Stockholm',
then '1 x carved giraffe figurine
1' by 5" approx (incomplete)'.
When I sat on the camping bed
(stripped of linen)
motes rushed up
into the room's only sunbeam,
suddenly blazing.
Some might have been her cast off skin cells,
some, just dust.
I looked at what I'd written
then drew a line through the words
before pulling the page from its bindings.
I turned to a fresh page,
wrote the date
and 'Stockholm'
then '1 x carved figurine
1' x 5" approx
(poss. incomplete
poss. giraffe)'
because you never know.
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I like this. I wish I knew
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I think Scrimshaw ,is the
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