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FOR AN ALBUM

   

Allow the backward camera of the mind

to fill mind’s empty spaces. He remembers

the many shifts of light on the canals,

San Marco’s many doves, the sudden ‘Hi!’

...

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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