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Broken Bell

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JaneBee

Published: Jun 3, 2010

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Rusted railings are painted over and
eroded rocks stand guard, in a
futile resistance to oppose the timely lashings of surf.

Coward-dressed mannequin, ever present,
keeps the gates to our castle.
Gargoyle-encased CCTV coloured a sultry blue.

The fort's façade turned many eyes, I saw
a snapshot from a borrowed camera.
Taken from afar, the edges are smoothed over.

A hawk encircles the courtyard, shrieking our song,
echoing a thousand unsaid words.
It wears a dentists' mask.

Our grimacing gardener wears a silver-sequinned glove.
He smoothes plaster over the crack filled walls
and tends to the ivy snaking from over the parapet of Juliet's balcony.

In the grounds, a child's kite lies tangled in a decaying tree
overhanging a dried out pond, as dormant as the broken bell,
witnessing this, a perfect crime.

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