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Friday 14 October 2016

Blood

Blood

A sudden slice of skin pearls, peels apart
tiny droplets, liquid beads
sitting pert, proud
waiting, welling moments
brimming, holding pause
awaiting further strength to push on

Then the pump and pulse
the stroke of a distant heartbeat
mechanics and hydraulics
forcing fluid pressure
through arteries, veins, capillaries
the cut-confines broken
an inundation, a rupturing
pouring crimson from the wound
a tracered stream of life-blood
red-staining onto flesh-whiteness

The torn and jagged scratch-line
filled and flooded by the flow
drops spotting the ground
AB Positive perhaps
vital to some-one else
but my wasteful gory loss
waiting the staunching, the padding and bandaging
or the subtle clotting power
of life’s congealment



 Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2016

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