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Some poems that particularly spoke to me…
Kathryn Maris “It was discovered that gut bacteria were responsible”
Ron Carey’s “Upstairs”, which concludes
“And she says nothing she says, nothing.
Leaving me, afraid
That everything might be said and done and said
And she has taken all the cold of the earth into herself.”
Kate Dempsey reads her poem “While it Lasted” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfTLCnxhOg
Andy Fletcher “the atlas”
we used to read the atlas together
you said
‘an atlas can take you anywhere
the more you look the more you see’
you pointed at a river
a frontier
a peninsula i’d never heard of
sometimes you’d lean closer to the pages
and i’d feel your breath on my hand
occasionally we’d make a few notes
at some point
we must have closed the atlas
not realising
we wouldn’t open it again
the furthest you move now
is from one side of the bed to the other
a peninsula everyone knows about
as the nurse
writes on a sheet of paper in a file
your breathing is shallow and fast
and more i listen the more i hear
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