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PORTSMOUTH
ELEGY
(For full
text see
the Kindle ebook The
Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
1 Tide Out and Gull
Angel
On
the farthest corner of the green shore
drops
down a gull seeking lonely food.
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2 The Stone Wind
The
tone of cemeteries: got by heart
by
the old man with the newspaper.
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3 Imperfect City
Long
before you died they’d altered it;
today
you would not know it at all.
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4 Black Mountains
My
guilt is I let you die, mother:
I
had no charm against that shadow.
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5 The Sacred Things
Death
came out of the forest hill.
I
asked to see his sacred things.
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(For full text
see the Kindle ebook
The Nature of Things
(Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
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