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‘Make them laugh and cry and gasp’

Contemporary poets

Emma Jones

And if i was changed, what was the difference? And if i was strung — myself and not myself, a double thing, there was a consequence. When i was a girl, i was a girl. And now i’m a tree, i’m a tree.

Seasons don’t arrive. There’s just a shifting. We move. i see it now. The staid worlds move, and the sun is no dragged lamp. The gods die, or never lived. They crawl home, damp and slow, to the subtle, shallow sea that made them.

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‘Make them laugh and cry and gasp’

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