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Unrevised fragments

  • Home
  • Poems I
    • Resurrection
    • Generation ’56
    • The Revolutionary
    • Memory
    • The blackbirds come
    • The gull, inland
    • A poet’s refusal to read
    • Vigil
  • Poems II
    • At the end
    • and Tracey dancing
    • Waiting time
    • Pips
    • Rereading Sylvia Plath
    • Overdue
    • Bruised fruit
  • Poems III
    • February forgets
    • My wedding ring and I
    • Mr Venus
    • Wheel spin
    • The midnight bird
    • By the cathedral
  • Short fiction
    • The scent of snowdrops
    • Honey Bunny
    • Our Lady of Locomotion
    • Each other’s keeping
    • The Buddha was a fat man
    • Flash fiction
    • Remington rescue
  • Non-fiction
    • A landscape of love
    • Angela Carter lives in south London
    • The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore
    • The Autobiographer’s Journey[i]
  • About
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It seems

It seems I need
another broken heart
to mend the last one
that fell apart

Yet the grief is not
your leaving me
but why I don’t love you
as I did at the start

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