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Discharge

I don’t know: I don’t
think about it. Images
discharge meaning
even as they hold it

back. The wild swan
I shot, then
kept in the yard
reminds me of

whatever
I lost when the wing
shattered. Its dying
eye denies me: don’t you see?

14.12.1988, Church Square, Christchurch

 


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