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COUNTRY MATTERS

 

Before Hitler’s bombs made their pits

in the districts of Portsea (it’s

timely now to offer late thanks

to those who rid our mums of angst),

we were all packed off to the sticks.

... 

  

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

  

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