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Jonathon Nimmons is a British poet and the founder of WriteSeen, the world’s first creative social network.

What the Thorns Remember

I loved you

Jonathon Nimmons

on our third call
I hated you
dividing your smiles

the Bougainvillea
flowering over
our fingers
questions
opened wounds
with blood leaping
from our nails

deleting numbers

tears shepherding
new trails in the grass

maybe autumn
as magenta petals
fall
into hands loose

in a polaroid
my mind snapped
as you folded us
into a pocket

where outlines
of a bar shutting
lifted our kiss
into song

drunk slurs

shading this frame

my roots reach
for a wet brush
to colour in

a dark rose

sharper teeth.

— Jonathon Nimmons

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