The Lost Days of a Limpet
By queen beatle
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You were born a silent egg
A stubborn little shell
Sucking tight the window to the world.
Now, in nests of newspaper
And seconds ticking through the dust,
You hide and grind your teeth.
Posture like a sack of sand
Your face, a creaking door,
Adds to breezes brown as moths' fur
The fat of your sighs
As they shift around the house
In clouds more warm than loud.
The evening stink of gutted fish
Announces your familiar, the gull
Whose rigid bill and crabby legs
If you still had eyes to see them
Would remind you of all those lost days
You pecked at on the shore.
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You said you have graduated
You said you have graduated since with a master's degree Morwenna, was it in languages? At the time you started writing on ABC you were still in high school I remember you were preparing for A-level exams. You progressed very fast no wonder you didn't have time for your own writing too.
Have you any plans for other/further study such as a PhD perhaps, or something completely new? Are you working? You were also very good at music. And what about the film making/study aspirations?
Keep well! Tom
PS. I was just a kid when I started angling and this is a brilliant description, I learnt from the start already to clean the fish after a day at the water, “The evening stink of gutted fish”. These days they chuck them back into the water seems a shame. It's called catch and release.
A couch potato “posture like a sack of sand” and “The fat of your sighs as they shift around the house in clouds more warm than loud" - sounds very familiar!
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