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Posted on February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

T.S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday

Originally posted on The Broken Towers:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…

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Posted on July 22, 2017July 24, 2017

“Water”, Philip Larkin

If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording To dry, different clothes. My liturgy would employ…

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Posted on May 28, 2017

“While there is still time”

The Mower BY PHILIP LARKIN The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen…

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