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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:39 AM

"Post Mortem".

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When it is hauled – dissolving, hard to see
as what was once a human being –
out of the winter lake,
they gape in silence:
puffs of vapour stand for voices.

Brought to shore, it lies upon a canvas sheet;
the brightly painted rowing boat
is dragged up on the freezing mud,
and those with jobs to do leave in relief.
The rest look anywhere but at their dripping catch,
and wait until the surgeon comes
to certify the thing is dead.

It’s whisked away,
laid out upon a table, stainless steel —
and then the slicing and the sawing,
and the grim performance
of the modern haruspectic rite
that seeks for omens, not of things to come,
but of the past.

Here, trapped within the folds of grey,
a bullet’s found, striations mapped;
upon the wrists and ankles, barely visible,
abrasion marks.
The organs bottled, tissues laid on slides,
and dental work recorded...
finally the closing, crudely stitched.
The corpse is slid into a chilly drawer,
the table’s sluiced,
and there’s just time for sandwiches and tea
before the next one’s wheeled along.

Examining the entrails, though, brings no success;
the days drag past, then weeks,
and after months the clockwork of investigation
slows, winds down, and other cases
take its place.
The human jetsam – missing
certain bits and pieces – is reduced
to smoke and ash, unmourned, unmarked.
From water into air, then fire,
and finally it’s laid in earth.

published in Oatleaf Poetry Magazine, June 2025
(nominated for Pushcart Prize)

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:10 AM

Watz Up #PoetsOfDoom people!!!!???
I'm working in a murder mystery event this weekend! All very fun and exciting! (The butler did it... But don't tell anyone...)
So I want to see if you can write me some murder mystery #poetry...
Good luck...
#MurderMystery
#Whodoneit #Blueskypoetry

@nikeytheangel.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:17 PM

#MarkPittsRCA #WhoDoneIt

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