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Hole
among things flat and decent
the hole suffered alone
out on the margin
of the untrue
who shall find it
shall miss it
Poems on the topic: margin
Poems on the topic “margin” on PoemShip.
MARGINS
The text is fixed: it’s about
God, or someone’s philosophy,
the history of dead kings, perhaps,
lists of what they ruled.
But the margins are loose;
I can doodle what I like:
see the peculiar animals among the leaves,
the tiny women sickling corn.
There are flowers here, all the ones I know
from mornings in the meadows. And there,
and there, a company around the table, a chorus
singing Gilbert and Sullivan.
Just there, in a corner,
if you look carefully, you can maybe
make out the woman giving birth under a tree.
She is quite alone, and her hair is white.
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