nine years ago

nine years ago
at the youthful distance

of a small town's green
from a mid-twenties girl's

smile that would never try
to gleam the permanent

baby tooth like her mother
under a tattooed oak tree

that shaded the full moon
like puritan curtains draped

carelessly on an uneven
bar spilling a pile of truth

into a pile of dirty clothes
drifting over dewy grass

on a hefty overcoat easily
found at a second hand

shop she washed and
rinsed her bloated body to

an irritated red like her
bloody brushed gums and

wished the earth would end




"The Writer's Cramp"  13+: Write the best story or poem in 24 hours or less and win 10,000 GPs!


Prompt: write a story or poem starting with: nine years ago...


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