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Angry eldest daughter hours : ) pinterest: yourladysteel <3

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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - 2017

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yourladysteel · 3 months

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Rarotonga (from the sky, from the sea), 2022 Pinterest: yourladysteel <3

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yourladysteel · 4 months

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The smile, 2022

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yourladysteel · 4 months

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eldest daughter, preacher's girl Pinterest: yourladysteel <3

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There's rosemary, that's for remembrance

Walter Crane, Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden

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yourladysteel · 4 months

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Saltwater veins Moodboard inspired by characters I haven't written yet 2/? Pinterest: yourladysteel <3

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The lady and her handmaiden, the princess and her protector Moodboard inspired by characters I haven't written yet 3/? Pinterest: yourladysteel <3

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yourladysteel · 4 months

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Matariki, 2022

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Amsterdam, 2017

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yourladysteel · 3 months

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Window view, 2022

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yourladysteel · 4 months

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Self-portrait of a ghost, 2022

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yourladysteel · 3 months

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Other women wear the same perfume as you That floral but not overpowering scent That musky, linger in the air smell of you That can throw me in a time portal Back, back, about three years now, To the Barberton house Or the bags that drip with radiation

It’s at its worse when I’m in Farmers Because that’s where all those women go Middle aged with money in their pockets Buying the clothes you once brought While mum sticks with the perfumes Avoiding unsuccessfully The ones that smell like you

I have to press myself back against the jewellery cabinets Both to let people down the aisle And to dodge the thing I can’t see Mouth a small scowl, eyes heavy-lidded An attempt to look as nonchalant as a teenager Still successful in looking like a teenager Because of my twelve year old face that hasn’t changed in years

Lord, I do not want to think about how yours has changed so.

Now, in Farmers, or in Ezibuy, or on the damn street Your ghost passes by in the form of another woman A grandmother to her own grandchildren, perhaps Or just a possession of your own choosing Hoping to lure me to the other side When I turn too quickly to look back at them Snapping my neck for hope that it’s you

Sometimes, on a whim, I think about reaching out To grab the solid ghost made up of memories Wrapped up in a smell Wondering, on a whim, whether they’ll reach back too To grab the solid granddaughter made up of wishes Wrapped up in her In you

If I grabbed them Pulled them back Hugged them tight Cried Screamed Stayed silent Just sighed

Would they turn into you? A different kind of resurrection That hasn’t happened in novels before One based on that perfume The one I don’t even have a name to All in an effort to give you a second chance At trying life out again

Where you can go skydiving for your sixtieth Or live in your new house for longer than a month Where you could have waved me goodbye at the airport When I finally started the journey we had been talking about A life where you can watch your daughter and I Walk across a stage for ten seconds For a piece of paper you helped me achieve

For a moment, that particular moment When your perfume is all I can smell I think about how fifty-seven was too young How I have friends who have parents Older than you Who are still here to this day When you’re not

But too soon in my musings They have disappeared They are gone And so is my chance And so are the memories And so is the perfume And so are you

And so are you You You were gone too soon

-Perfume, or, It's Been Seven Years Since My Nan Died So Here Is A Poem I Wrote When I Was Younger That Highlights How The Grief Never Leaves Me, It Lingers Even After I've Forgotten How Her Hand Used To Feel In Mine