Quadrant Online
Volume LII Number 451
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Poetry
Sabotage
I looked down at my palm and saw the stone:
An amber bolus born of afternoon
I threw it arching up, high and over,
Until it struck the sky
And giant cracks dived down to the horizon
Leaving enormous splinters of day free-standing
Around the edge of the world.
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