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YOUR SMELL OF NOW

  

I’ll not forget

you two hours old,

all of us quitting the birth ward.

  

Not a nurse

in the night-wide corridor,

all of us lumbered.

... 

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

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