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His nightmare rocked the house
but no-one woke, accustomed
to the heart's disturbances.
We dug a grave last night
under the apple tree where fruit
fattens in green clusters.
Black and white fur perfect
except where the soil fell
or where small blood seeped
between the needles of her teeth
in the cracked china of her bones.
Perfect but for darkness
clotting thе skull and silence
like thе note of an organ
hanging in the locked air
Dylan dreamed it again
woken by caterwauling
Two mourners held a wake
at dawn on the compost heap
(her special place) yowling
to wake the sleeping and to stop
the heart considering
animal mysteries
the otherness of pain.

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