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MISS WEBBLEY

 

She read us The Water Babies, made me sit

by John who drew maps of the world like quilts

with China next to London and Ceylon.

I was no better.  Told to draw a wall,

I didn’t need to watch her at the board

but did a grid of squares and got ticked off.

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

   

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