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Anchor

By span

Sun, 22 Jul 2007
  • 1133 reads
 

Anchor

He sat back on the brown sofa
and watched her guitar strings
stretch around her wrist and snap.

‘The anchor, the anchor’ she said,
but he thought how little he cared
and sipped frothy tea from an ugly mug.

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