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YouTube video: John Duffy reading poems from
his collection
A
Gowpen
Commended,
National Poetry Competition 2006
Evaporation
The
last day of Ramadan: the hard frost
has
withered in the hard stare of the sun,
the
pavements are drying. There's a sense
of
excitement checked; the scents of feasts drift
from
behind tense curtains out across
Mount
Pleasant. I imagine eyes searching
for
the new hook of dawn on the moon's edge.
The
sky's inverted in the gutter,
fragmented
clouds and brittle blue ripple,
reflection
settles after the intrusion
of
a wheel. From Al-Habib Hair Art
barbered
boys race home to new Eid suits.
A
man waits for a train, reads the Koran,
around
him swirling frost and town and moon.
John Duffy
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