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And the Gods Named the Earth the Fifth of May

by Lesley Halm

If you are one of those people
who believes time is a place
then my parents were married
in a country called 36 Years Ago Today
and in a different place
there is a democratic republic called 33 Years Later
They share a border
and a common language
and the people have the same names
religions and skin colour
But somewhere between these countries
is a mountain range named Four Girls
and somewhere beyond that
on the border of 33 Years Later
there is a rocky place
where the air carries nothing but silence
and the people speak a particular dialect
chiefly recognised among academics
as Divorce

About Lesley Halm

She likes to think she's tough, like Tom Waits rolled in gristle, but she really a big wimp hiding behind a bustle of big words.  She also thinks there is such a thing as a 'bustle of words'. Books, poetry, stories, and the occasional article are what she chiefly likes to dabble in. She can be found on Twitter here.