poppies

• "i wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose ... being eskimos like we did when you were little" - imagery
• "sellotape bandaged around my hand as i rounded up as many white cat hairs as i could" - imagery
• "i resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled black thorns of your hair" - juxtaposition
• "spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade" - colour imagery/ foreshadowing danger