Matins

Matins

Ben Egerton

she leaves you
Ilya Kaminsky
on a WhatsApp voice memo
I have come, God, I have come
running to you
her voice clean clear
as bones
picked of flesh
& warming in this lengthening
morning light her recount
a figment of someone
else’s imagination

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Ben Egerton
Poet & Education Lecturer

Photography by Benjamin Suter