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Poems

Black Knight

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

A few forgotten objects Dad passed on:
copperplate pens with long nail nibs,
still stained black, one coal-fire red,
laid to rest
for twenty years in the shed’s office chest;



a Monopoly set
yanked by a seaman uncle from his sinking merchant ship
U-boat torpedoed
at the beginning of the second world war,
but minus the board;



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