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Heard on the Concertina Wire; poem | Poem

 

 

HEARD ON THE CONCERTINA WIRE


 
 
Baruch or Moses,

Francis or Augustine,

Ishi or Ishmael?

Whose candles shall I burn

In the ebony centuries

Before the sun grows chill?
 
 

- David W. Mitchell
 

to David  /  to Moongate