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For the moment the thin tea and the floury scones

until the rain pulls off, then we’ll expend

the rest of our ambition on the town,

digest the streets down to their cobbled spines,

nibble the scallops on the rectory styles

and top off with the evening’s salad air.

... 

  

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

  

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