Tight-lipped
and her pulse throbs like
the belly of a frog.
Her windpipe contracts;
her octopus mouth hovers.
His eyes pick the newspaper columns
like carrion crows at a carcass.
His ears inhale the gaslike silence
seeping across the floor.
Their toenails grow quietly.
Pat Jones
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Author's translation of Porträtt av två som åldras tillsammans
published in Horisont, No. 4,Vol 33, 1986 Finland
