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LA
BELLE LECTRICE
Above
the bay of sand and the birth-caps of foam
on
the cliff top on her side of the cottage window
thud
hopeless winged insects. Her
eyes climb up
to
them from a thriller’s pages. Fruit
flies, midges,
hover
flies, wasps, ladybirds—bugs, all equal,
leaving
little panics of fly-pats on the stiff vitrine.
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(For full text see
the Kindle ebook The
Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
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