Little Neighbour Without A Shadow

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Published: 6-Feb-2013

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In Cordoba
there was a beautiful boy...

He rarely went out alone. Only once
I watched him venture
into my garden - he left
his timid footprints
in the path's yellow dust.

In Cordoba
there was a beautiful boy

but after that day, he was bathed
every morning - I would hear his mother
lifting and pouring the water - every evening.
She hated that yellow dust.

In Cordoba
there was a beautiful boy

but neither honey nor apricots
could again entice his small clean feet
to his neighbour's table -
where waiting cups sat on shadows,

in a garden in Cordoba.
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Meg

Chilling.. & utterly beautiful. Whoever you are, I hope you write lots more.

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