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10 January 2020

Poem: Ancient Wounds

Protected Pangolin: Art by Debora Ewing https://www.debnation.com


Careless shift carapace rifts
A sacred space exposed
Plates of armour torn asunder
Exposing the never whole

Curling 'round her pangolin heart
She tends to these intrusions
In seclusion she seeks inclusion
Within a tribe she cannot know

Warrior head high in a toxic sky
Sucking sulphurous bile from her throat
She ascends from the ashes
Writing footprints of grief in the sand

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