Love Poem: The Slow Earth
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Written by: Dan Keir

The Slow Earth

Someone has pickled the butterflies
          Which now line like lead
     My black box belly,
A living dearth.

We twist around little sorrys, our
          Cement-mixer minds
     absorb from Telly
What we're worth.

Dry-ice autopilot turns on, as
          Words fly past windows,
     Staining like jelly
The slow earth.