Loss not yet happened
Avoidable loss
puff myself up in fur
Loss done to death
Loss of safety
dust my knuckles in solitaires
Loss so long anticipated
Life-changing loss
my body in pastels
Loss that cannot be revoked
Be known until it is
no tears but glass
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Camellia Stafford lives in the Midlands and works in museum education. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, several Emma Press anthologies and Salt's Best British Poetry 2013. Her first poetry collections 'Letters to the Sky' was published in 2013 by Salt.
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