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Susanna is walking down to the piazza
and I am holding a bucket of sheets.
Stai facendo la biancheria? Come sei bravo!*
I unlock the gate and climb to Marilena’s
whose terrace looks over the roofs of the village.
I drape the white sheets over the railings
and then look casually across the valley
it’s as if someone’s handed me the world..!
* Are you doing the laundry? Aren’t you good!
Julian Stannard’s poems have been widely published in magazines. His work was represented in the Faber introductory anthology First Pressings. He was a prize-winner in the 1998 National Poetry Competition and held the Crabbe Memorial from 1996 to 1999. He is the author of Fleur Adcock in Context and occasionally writes for the Nuova Corrente. He now teaches at an associate college of UEA. A first book of poems is due from Peterloo Poets.
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