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Their ripped curtain screams
in the bin-lined night – how
they open the throat’s window
and for so long hold the skin
over its kettle screech. One
from the troop in the garden
had its back leg crumpled
by a motorbike or car.
It’s possible I envy
the extravagance of their grief.
Clara-Læïla Laudette