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published
in ANON three (ed. Mike Stocks)
Anon Publishing Edinburgh, 2005
Soldier
deaf
old man.
No
coward. British
postal
worker.
Loved
and buried
twenty
dogs.
Kept
his log book
bound
in leather.
Ten
a.m. All present
and
correct.
Six
p.m. Black out.
Milk
gone. Torch dead.
When
things grew worse,
post-war,
wife dead,
he
bolted doors
and
wired up the house.
For
years, the dining
room
– his bed.
Damp
and mould
a
tide above his head.
Joan Michelson
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last
update:
e-mail
Joan
and in
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shop
...
collection:
"Toward
the Heliopause"
(book & CD);
Mad Jock
Publishers;
chapbook:
"Letting
in the Light";
anthology:
Loffing
Matters,
Tindal Street Press
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