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Thursday, 8 December 2016

RIVER BANK

RIVER BANK

After the yellow-brown leaves
Are washed with sunlight,
I’ll be the dipper that flies
And returns; when the water low
My poetry slowed to a trickle
The remaining ripples, like leaves
Disappeared; or ink from my pen,
Seeped into river-banks again....



Published in Stanzas and The Galway Review
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