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    In Your Absence
    In Your Absence
    In Your Absence
    Ebook38 pages10 minutes

    In Your Absence

    By Jill Penny

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    In Your Absence is a response to a year of bereavement, a murder and a trial, estrangements, departures and insights. Troubled by ghosts, these poems are ultimately a gift to anyone stranded in the whiteout of loss.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Poetry Business
    Release dateJan 18, 2021
    ISBN9781912196524
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      In Your Absence - Jill Penny

      Part One

      Blunt Force Trauma

      Today, this hour, this minute, there are things I need

      to be true, and to not be true.

      I need it to be true that on that night it really was help offered,

      by that young lad, not the broken ribs from three to twelve,

      shattered cheek bones, both eye sockets broken,

      smashed nose and the fractured skull

      resulting from a blunt force trauma.

      I need it to be true that in the intimacy of a pocket,

      hands were searching for your phone to call for help,

      or at the very least feeling the quality of your suit,

      which looked expensive, looked like privilege,

      which was second hand.

      That the lad was only asking for the time

      and that I never knew the meaning of a contrecoup.

      I need it to not be true, that there are people who have nothing,

      have

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