Alice Jennings
Photo: Geraint Rowland
i
wishing for years
to stay young
I am old now
the white lily is wilting
I am wilting too
ii
watching him eat sardines
the oily smell, the sucking sound
I think about death
like plankton being filtered
through a sardine’s gills
“Passages” first appeared in In Other Words- Merida, March 2012
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