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Spring 2007 Poetry Competition Second Prize

Dark Slug

 

Jenny Hope

 

Email: thekickingwitch@tiscali.co.uk

 

 

Dark slug;

dirty little thing

weights your shoulder,

 

knots you in

eating your balance.

You flick it

 

but it's suctioned.

I try to talk

it from your neck,

 

it's a race to peel

before it reaches

your inner ear

 

and squirms in.

Once there it'll

take some shifting.

 

So far it's still

soft and malleable,

killable with salt.

 

 ©2007 Jenny Hope

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