Friday, 24 May, 2013
Volume LII Number 4
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Poetry
Trampoline Heart
When she thinks of him she’s
like a child
on a trampoline,
poised for the fall,
preparing for
impact.
Stomach rising,
muscles coiled,
one second in crouch,
the next in flight.
She smiles,
baring her teeth at the sky.
Elizabeth Lewis
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