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  • Odd Man Out
    • Blog
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    • Prose >
      • Sometimes a headscarf is just a headscarf
    • Poetry >
      • cranberries
      • don't blame it on the weather
      • Remembrance Day 2016
      • unsettled
  • Exhibitions
    • Léopold L Foulem : Récupérations
  • Queer
    • History >
      • Invention & Emancipation
      • Weimar & After
    • Activism
    • Pink Triangle Day >
      • History
  • Albums
    • Passage
  • About
    • Acknowledgement
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don't blame it on the weather


the weather
in fact
doesn’t care

it’s not being indecisive
or keeping us waiting

it just is

this fog-cradled morning –
the occult far shore of the harbour
this alternation of bright and dim –
is not trying to tell us something
not toying with our hopes
and fears

we are the ones becalmed
stranded in an in-between
of our own making

the weather is not a message
but some of it
is evidence

time now
to come clean
to confess our crimes
if only
to our own
deaf ears
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