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Andrew Lansdown: Silver Pendant

Andrew Lansdown

Jun 01 2015

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Silver Pendant

 

1

Fallen

 

A simple pendant,

a small unchained ornament—

how far it’s fallen

from a woman’s slender neck

onto the road embankment.

 

 

2

Assumption

 

Irrationally

I assume some Asian girl

lost the silver

Chinese-character pendant

glinting in the gravel-stones.

 

 

3

Lost

 

Below the hollow

below the throat, on the skin

above the breathing—

that’s where it used to dangle,

the tarnished pendant I found.

 

Andrew Lansdown

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