Love Sonnet

Three words
obsess
all herds.
Our best

intents
will hedge 
the bets
and dredge

up all
the past.
Appalled
how fast

the fade
puts paid.

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Zoë Deans lives in Ōhinehou and works in drug harm reduction. Their writing can be found in The Spinoff, takahē, bad apple, and others.