a snail’s death smear
this splintered trail
spiral unbound
one sad stalked eye
seems to regard
body's liquid bloom
careless horror
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a snail’s death smear
this splintered trail
spiral unbound
one sad stalked eye
seems to regard
body's liquid bloom
Out of the Cave 
Sad but well written.👍
i tried taking the shell off a snail to see if it would move faster, but it had the opposite effect; it just became sluggish!
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LOL You dag.
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🤣🤣🤣 I had to run this through Giggle…..
1.
AUSTRALIAN•NEW ZEALAND
a lock of wool matted with dung hanging from the hindquarters of a sheep.
2.
INFORMAL•AUSTRALIAN
an entertainingly eccentric person; a character.
“your father must have been a bit of a dag”
I hope you mean the second!
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LOL Indeed I did mean the second although I am very aware of the first. I use dag affectionately. I would never call somebody I didn’t like a dag. 🙂
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Thank you or, as a man with a cold would say, dag ewe!😊
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🙂
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‘short, grim’ indeed but mesmeric; such a haunting image: ‘one sad-stalked eye seems to watch body’s liquid bloom’; actually sheer horror, more like it ; masterfully crafted —
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Thanks, John. 😊
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haunting and horrifying; imagine it were a person, say a stab victim, watching their life drain away on the cold pavement —
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I can relate to this – there are lots of snails in Jerusalem and they foolishly end up all over the sidewalks…
❤
David
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