Amy Kurth

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“The Fruit Thereof Dust” by Amy Kurth

Submitted to Contest #251

TW: mention of abuse, poisoning. For the crown of our life as it closes      Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust;No thorns go as deep as a rose's,      And love is more cruel than lust.Time turns the old days to derision,      Our loves into corpses or wives;And marriage and death and division      Make barren our lives. – Algernon Charles Swinburne Un The rain beat a slow, irregular tempo against the windows of the Musé...

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