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Thursday 23 August 2012

50/100 ‘Yes,’ said the brother in the hospice door



‘Yes,’ said the brother in the hospice door
‘A foreigner with a sea wound on him,
And we put oil and leaves on his thigh.’

[from ‘Pirates’ from the Foresterhill sequence, George Mackay Brown, from 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']

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