The Book of Marvelon | Louise Norgate

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Twenty three years was all it took
ethinylestradiol
desogestrel
subtle hymnal sweetly sung
praying the flesh to sleep –

but the body knows the body.
No ink is indelible.
da capo
new songs write themselves.


By day, Louise Norgate is a complementary therapist: by night, a tarot reader, moongazer & writer with poetry published in Acropolis Journal. Her words are on Twitter @LouNwrites. She likes the dark.

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