February 2024.

Full poem:

Miss Grace And Claude

two baby girls, housed in a windowless turret room.

early on, Miss Grace seemed taken with the idea of unfolding her mind,

whilst Claude often preferred the concept of ‘alone’.

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Miss Grace had initially missed it.

She didn’t know what to do with the reality she had just discovered.

it was in this she realized

She never knew her friend after all…

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Because of you, I will never forget that day. her hand on her sister’s arm.

In her: ‘I’m afraid’

She longed for: ‘Me too’

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‘Did Miss Grace use her art to convey……….’

‘Was she scared?’