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The Wordsworth Papers
SONNET TO AN OCTOGENARIAN 1846
the old girl
not even glancing at Big Ben
silence of snow


a black and white cat
hangs around the cafe bins
just about midnight
she sings a song of lost love
where the chicken bones meet fish


how his dinner plate shrunk
after 80 years
Dad still hates peas


a row of carrots
between onions and beans
white dahlia blooms
cakes cooked by the 'young wives'
on a long trestle table


two epitaphs in stone
she died of nothing he died alone
paul t conneally�& debra woolard bender
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