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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

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Christian Ward is a UK-based writer who can be currently found in Asylum Magazine, One Hand Clapping, The Crank, Sein Und Werden and The Pangolin Review.


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Pike

April. You were found lifeless
by the shore, guts already unspooling.
Eyes backflipped, water black as a chess
piece. Ominous, perhaps. A god fooling
around with us, wanting to shake
our innocence, our childhood belief.
We didn't understand that could be taken
so easily. It wasn't much of a relief
when we decided to burn your corpse,
hide the ashes in an oak tree, before our parents
could learn of it. Believe in the old ways.
I swear I saw flashes of light when we
returned you to the river, wept as the water
turned from black to quicksilver.