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LETTER TO CRISPIN

              1993

 

I write to you, who are still part of me

but living in a country where the ways

are strange, of course, as I once found them too:

lone lodgings, an empty fairground foreignness,

      odd fricatives of sight and smell,

      motel vowels everywhere,

                  love’s labials

and the guttural fixation of ambition.

... 

   

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

   

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