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Summer 1981 • Vol. III No. 3 • Contemporary English and Irish Poetry |

At Seven a Son

In cold weather on a
garden swing, his legs
in wellingtons rising over
the winter rose trees

he sits serenely
smiling like a Thai
his coat open, his gloves
sewn to the flapping sleeves

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