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Millstone Grit
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Rain in the wind …
the three children coming down the brass slide
I want to tell you they’re fine, the children,…
miss you, knowing the impossibility of ever communicating
anything
it’s so irrevocable…
The wind is icy -snow-
and in a few days it’ll be Christmas
our last in Lima, sunbathing and swimming,…
block after cement block of niches, rectangular hives,
and the coffin-bearers staggering and sweating in black suits
the mason cementing it in, no room for your words:
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