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Clarice Lane

by: Willow Kang


‘Leonard Siffleet was a young Allied soldier who fought in world war 2 as an Australian Special Forces soldier. His post was in Aitape, New Guinea, where he was captured by Japanese soldiers, and subsequently beheaded. Siffleet left behind a fiance, Clarice Lane. His beheading was photographed by a Japanese soldier, and till this day, remains as one of the most shocking images taken in World War 2.’


Linoleum rice, satin jackpots

What you wish for, Vegas will fill

I call the hands, Siffleet's on the table

Leonard is as young as formaldehyde would allow,

his passion a sword, severing heads

with hands of jacaranda flowers

Aitape is a recurring nightmare, a vision of the fountains

The villagers tell tales about the Kempeitai's cottages,

about the restless youths playing inside at midnig\ht

I tell irrelevant tales to dead things, tree things

picnics on pastures cursed by Cassandra, gossiping beheadings

The genie is here, and I can be the villain if I wanted to,

splurging wishes to disturb restful sleepers, rousing them

to violent haunts, resentful radio static,

gullible memorandums from New Guinea


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