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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 |
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| paul t conneally�& debra woolard bender | |||||||||
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