‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’
A withdrawal from form
like the lock of hair found sewn
inside your uncle’s waistcoat pocket,
the inherited made strange
by its unheard-of colour.
Did you slip the suit on?
And if so did you breathe differently
as if equipped with an aqualung,
ladder or canister of oxygen? Better
to move freely, t…
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