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'Choir Practice' by James Charlton | States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

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States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

'Choir Practice' by James Charlton | States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

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States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

A priest undoes his belt.
Twenty years later,
I compare his gentleness
to a Tibetan sky burial.
But there was only one vulture
skeletonising the cadaver
on a barren slope.

James Charlton

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