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Portrait of a Scar
Bring back the sea
sun hands to stretch
across us. Cold splits
the satin
skinned lords,
baring fig
guts. The wasps come, one
by one, chasing
across the marble.
Flies lace the cake
plates in the glasshouse as
frost embroiders
moss. Winter
now. In my
jalopy, my pigskin suitcase scarcely
holds your crystal
gifts and in my rearview
mirror, boxwoods
green your tiny figure.
Smithereens as I take a corner
sharp.
That night your face, golden
beneath bouillon, haunts each soup
plate. The line is
long.
Sylee Gore is writing on new uses of photography in poetry at the University of Oxford, where she is poetry editor of the Oxford Review of Books. She was jointly awarded the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize in 2020, and her chapbook, Even Still, was published by Sampson Low of London in 2021. She lives in Berlin.