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Harold Fleming

Poetry

Winter 1960

What the Cocks Knew

By Harold Fleming

They came out with cocks crowing and crows too And looked on the fields of town, finding them Not to their liking and light blinding them Like the dying in […]

Poetry

Winter 1960

Boy Asleep

By Harold Fleming

Nudge me to sleep: I cross the beds in rows Where nothing grows, and between head and foot I travel with the wind, then stick like soot. And in a […]