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Tonight's Poet Corner: A Secret Guest

A Secret Guest by Belinda Roddie Come see me once the men in black armor have left for the night in their barbed wire carriages, forming stitches and breaking jaws on the previously pristine cobblestone. I will be in my room at nine o'clock, and I will be cutting my hair link by golden link, like brass and bronzed chains that I've been keen on snapping with a blade. Come kiss me after my father's guards have drunk too much of his homemade mead, and therefore, their eyes are too glazed over to tell the difference between lips and bricks. I want to hear your stories one more time, read off papyrus and summer reeds, sung by swans and spun into tiny beads. I collect each word and save them in a broken music box. That way, the song is silent, but your lyrics remind me of the draconian word: Freedom.

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