short forms 19th December 2016

"uncle"
ten years older
dad's sister's widower
she reminds him of his late wife
her aunt

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dead pigeon
in the cemetery bin
discarded cedar tree

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Mr Trump
(an orange guinea pig with stupid hair)
teaches himself to beg
for pieces of carrot
or has he taught me to offer them?

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a thousand pages
too long for a novel
cut it down

Best to cut eighty percent
to leave it a shade under
two hundred

that's eight words in ten

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Edits. Killing darlings loses the intimacy.

© Rachel Green 2016