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7 November 2018

Notes for a Poem About Love

A new poem by Janet Murray.

By Janet Murray

A blue rooster in Trafalgar Square snorts
out colour through his bill
slicing mist more bravely than any sun.

Jasmine starbursts scattering
a November hedge, a lonely blackbird
singing at dusk, harbingers

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