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Lavinia Greenlaw

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Monk On A Tractor

The monks on Caldey make perfume and chocolate.
They watch each other grow old
and draft adverts for new recruits.

From April to September they are surrounded.
The pleasure boat brings holiday makers
who tidy their faces as they go through the gate

unprepared for a monk on a tractor
and another hanging underwear on a line.
The sea that swings between the monastery

and my father’s house, casts up jellyfish,
a used hypodermic, stones and shells that, days
    later,
give no clue as to why they were picked up.

The wrong wind brings the wrong things home:
raw sewage and, late last summer,
the body of a man who was teaching himself to dive.

Once, a stag swam round the headland.
No one knows where it came from
or who it was that saw it.

Ted Schofield - Cat(Intermediate)



Ted Schofield
Cat (Intermediate)
Knitting patterns


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