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Poetic Licence: 'Fences' by Celeste Musseau

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Celeste Musseau.
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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Celeste Musseau.


Fences

barbed wire fences
were made malicious
the known angle for tearing flesh
planned in pencil on blueprint

they could have been sculpted
with clever hands to show angels
or something like that Italian
Michelangelo would have done


Celeste Musseau, 27, works in a library and reads non-stop. She has held 26 different jobs in her lifetime so far (never fired!).

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