He falls and lies for a hundred years
in forecast rain and un-forecast rain,

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One step from there, to be stripped and disinfected here,
but they cannot take from you all that you were…

He brought it with him to Corfu,
and out of the blue asked if I would
be kind enough to put it on…

When we were young it was difficult to see
the word enclosed within the flesh; flesh was
sweeter than words when we were young…

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As trees diseased in spring heal 
and bud again before autumn,