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published in collection, 30 Poems, 2004,

Rough Winds Productions, ISBN 0-953658-6-8

 

February is a Green Month

 

February is a green month,

a baby sweetness

about its bare shoulders.

 

All the beginnings of hope

in its clean, spare landscape:

a slight twist of hunger

 

in its empty fields,

the enclosed memory of stones.

under the hedge,

 

a tremble of snowdrops.

Sunlight making a plaid of gold,

wind and smoke.

 

Ivy shimmies round the hawthorn,

this is happiness,

the smell of earth.

 

 

Jehane Markham

 

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"The Captain's Death",
Soul;
"20 Poems" ,
"30 Poems",
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"My Mother Myself,
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