The Dress by Lucy Whitehead

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The Dress  

I had a sundress made 
of endless skies         hemmed 
with bees and wildflowers,
                a kaleidoscope 

of summers stitched 
together        horizons 
reaching away
                on every side.

I wore it day after day         believing 
it would last        even though 
its edges were ragged,
                 its tears patched.

I never realised that
                  if I didn't pass it on 
one day,
half-way through my life,
                      it would fade 
and fall apart
                      in my hands.

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Lucy's poetry has appeared in Amethyst Review, Barren Magazine, Black Bough Poetry, Burning House Press, Collective Unrest, Electric Moon Magazine, Ghost City Review, Mookychick Magazine, and Twist in Time Literary Magazine. She has a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Art History and Archaeology from the SOAS University of London. She lives by the sea with her husband and cat. Her Twitter handle is @blueirispoetry.

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