Peter Rose
Listen, Lesbia!
Surely you can hear.
Shake off that silly hangover
while I part the curtains
just slightly.
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for Craig Sherborne
‘Grief wrongs us so.’
Douglas Dunn
To the sea we bear our fathers in state –
or what they’ve done to them: the square conversions.
Surf mild as receding tides,
we slump in dunes with our burdens,
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