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**
The First Wife's Tale has been long-listed
for the Wales Book of the Year 2007
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in collection The
First Wife's Tale,
2006, Shoestring Press
ISBN-13 978 1 904886 46 4.
ISBN-10 1 904886 46 9
Surfing
Some people fall
into a sly black hole.
I
surf the net, find young good-looking men
I
knew years back, now bald and gross, and some
others
there were, I cannot find at all.
Some
names are quite unusual; though I spell
them
right, there’s no response; they’re either dead
or
stunned by beer and pills, or lost abroad;
and
some I’ve quite forgotten. Just as well.
I
count them out, those who were young with me.
There’s
the night sky, now slowly turning grey,
some
few bright stars still burn at break of day;
behind
them, multitudes that you can’t see.
I
type my own name in the flattened square;
eleven
thousand references appear.
Merryn
Williams
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