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5th May, 2023

Friday Poem – ‘The Crux’ by Vanessa Lampert


This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Crux’ by Vanessa Lampert from her debut collection Say it With Me.

The Crux
Through layers of Christmas
you come back to haunt us,
the sink’s greasy burden
unmanned by your absence,
the turkey more lunged at
than carved. How many years
since you ended it, eleven?
My mind’s eye has you restless
as you were. Muscular and lean
as a much younger man
thanks to all that running,
which, as it turned out
was away. You left us to guess
what hell it was
that hunted you. That’s the crux
of what’s haunting us now.