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Stamp the fridge

Shamelessly

With colours brash enough

To appease

The imagination

And boards of tourism

Having a

Here

Wish you were

Weather

Thinking of

Great time

The pen clicks shut

Gritty with sand

Cocktail umbrellas swabbing

Maraschino dye

Like a stab wound

‘Please

Can we just…’

A palm flashed like a badge

Holiday police

Detaining old arguments

Into the corners

Of new suitcases

But how they dangle now

Against the white lacquer

Magnet pinned

Something to push our faces against

In ungainly silences

Golf-greened ruins

Aborigines sat in studios

Landmarks you could

Shake a snowstorm in

And they stare back at us

Accusingly

Orthogonal eyes beaming

Clumped in clusters

Of either too few

Or too many

Mark Lavorato is a poet and writer from Canada. His first novel, Veracity, won second place in Ore Mountain Publishing House’s First Annual Novel Contest, while his short fiction has been published in Stranger Box and Miss Saphira's. His poetry has also been chosen for publication by Leaf Press, The BluePrintReview, Poetry Canada Magazine, Miss Saphira's, and Ascent Magazine, where he has won First Place in their Premier Print Edition Contest. He is currently working on his second novel.

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