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15 January 2020

Walpurgis

A new poem by Fiona Sampson.

By Fiona Sampson

This after sunset summer
light is the closest
we can come
to the strangeness of a white
night its borrowed time

in which trees stand
motionless they
go blind without the sun
and on the hill a deer
coughs again                                                                                              

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