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A CHILD WAKING

for Undine

   

Unoccupied by sleep the infant cries.

She tries a mew until it’s a miaow 

that rises through the cot-rails, silent bars, 

sharp-edged, to where it’s recognised.

...   

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

   

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