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Rayner Heppenstall

Poetry

Summer 1940

Quarter Day

By Rayner Heppenstall

Again my harvest is none of those fruits that I sawIn the eye of April and now when the moon comes downI cannot pay my tithe again for although Love […]

Poetry

Summer 1940

Uneasy Time

By Rayner Heppenstall

Small creatures of the mind No longer flourish or die To the old measure the old kind Hesitations of the eye. Particles of dead thoughtStir all day now and findNo […]