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THE POLITICAL PRISONER

 

Calabrian autumn and late morning chill, and still

he cannot excise what blistered in his brain

all dawn until he woke: barefoot young woman, goat-faced,

handsome as a goat, yesterday in the red courtyard.

Seen yesterday in this country that shrinks when it rains.

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

  

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