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PORTRAIT OF A LADY

                1
I remember the pier at Southsea
where a few old men, stuck,
hugged fishing lines.
You flipped your hand in the fog
over the Solent at
the Isle you came from.
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    (For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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