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Robin Skelton

Poetry

Summer 1969

The Rake

By Robin Skelton

Half asleep, tonight I recall the poems. Too personal, I said then. No one should squint at me, half smiling, knowingly, as he thumbed those dangerous sheaves. Out there the […]