Before You – 2002 – in my study.
This poem is from another chapbook-in-progress entitled ‘Exploring Possibilities’ full of pieces written when My Man reappeared and offered a different future while I weighed the risk, knowing my recent past with a different man.
Hand Made Notes black and white coloured exposures torn to pieces carefully measured moulded miniature portraits fruit thrown into a large ceramic bowl it was blue then I found a bucket without holes poured hot water and glue something to bind some lemon rind for freshness rose oil for fragrance newly delicate and soft stirred the pot a witch’s brew deliberately changing my past and future of you snow flakes of my tears softened over three days/years stewed quietly to mush crushed until I no longer recognized pieces of wedding, parties - anything dresses I wore to make myself more beautiful for you a fleeting betrayal of a heart filled with love with lies happiness arrows – spies your other women who were my friends thorns on the rose of my myth Frances Macaulay Forde © 2005 #POEM:HandMadeNotes #ExploringPossibilities #FrancesMacaulayForde #BeforeYou #Poem
Perth Words... exploring possibilities. 
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