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The tumbling, acrobatic child

is keen to try he knows not what

peregrinations on the lawn,

oneiric leapings in his cot.

 

She holds him in her arms aloft:

he wriggles every way to get

a new experience, and takes

for granted there’s a safety net.

... 

  

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

  

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