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Poems

Wind

11 July 2013

1:00 PM

11 July 2013

1:00 PM

Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch
and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are clippers
and wrenches the shed door , and makes leylandii lurch,

unnerving the cat, wobbling the elderly; that viciously clobbers
pedestrians at the corner, then snatches up bills and payslips
put out for recycling and juggles with them; that gibbers

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