By the time I was ten, you became 
handy at cutting my hair 
so I looked like a sunburnt boy.
(but that might have been your unborn ghost) 
While you whistled 
a song that sounded better 
as a whisper underwater.
You argued with a postman  
about whose death it was, 
while I played my recorder
in the corner, swallowed 
the blue glass beads from my lace hem.
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