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TO PLEAD THE FIFTH

By Jonty Pennington-Twist



Secrets

Thrown from the harbour wall

Come spilling back

On lacerated tides

 

 

Along with things

That sailors thought they saw

Strange reflections

In the dawn bird’s eyes

 

 

There

On the mud flats

Faint godwit prints

In circles where they fed

 

 

It seems

I’m only digging shallow graves now

For things

That won’t stay dead


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