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And just when he was all in it,
From head to foot the welling heartbeat,
This thing, this town, ceased to articulate for him.
Some ogre behind the font?
Some field god tired of making wheat?
Shocked when a child sister
Was walked in her deadbox to the old church
He saw the light turn sinister:
Some one had moved the morning
With an almost visible lurch
And set it down askew.
Afterwards certainly all world was
Out of the true
Morning after morning.
From
Poetry Nation No 4 (1975)