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Poems

Chair in a Field

2 March 2024

9:00 AM

2 March 2024

9:00 AM

If it is here, tethered by thorns
to the soil, for a reason,
it is solely to hold him, 

his shepherd’s ghost
home from a field in Belgium,

to let his tired frame rest
and the breeze call through him


A oes heddwch? A oes heddwch? …

expecting no answer.

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