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FULL FATHOM FIVE

   

In the sea-seasoned black timber:

furrows deep as a miner’s worry

and a hole. Round this orifice

you can make out a face, a peaty

offering, leathery, garrotted.

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

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