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BMJ No 7123 Volume 315

Poems Saturday 20/27 December Christmas 1997 issue


Visual acuity

W h e n
he smiled
he saw seagulls wait
on the telephone wires
at the corners of his eyes.
His round suns rose on their white beaches to stare.
The world focused carefully on more important things.
His blinking is the sound of small boys throwing crusts on the water.

Glenn Colquhoun


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