Amanda’s Last Ride

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She stays arride,

            Sugar-baby blown

            S'Amanda's turn

To kill her Rowan. *

            A fairground weeps,

            Asleep under rain

            But Amanda's seat's

Still dry, still chained.

            The grassy floor,

            Allstrewn with straw

            And candy-floss stems

            Reflects a ropy night,

            Reeling fairylights

            Across the pool of red

            Under Amanda's seat;

            Echoes from another childhood

            Cast beyond Amanda's reach:

            Her face now bloodless,

            Blanchèd hands unveined

            Amanda's sugar-baby stem

            Falls and swims in bloody rain,

            Her candy-floss wishes

            Carried to a sister fairground,

Miles away.

            * cf.  GUINEVERE AND ROWAN