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A Sort of Early Retirement single work   poetry   "You have come to sing my redundancy"
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 A Sort of Early Retirement
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Notes

  • Epigraph:

    I have come to take your place, sister,

    At the high fire in the forest's heart...

    You don't understand the songs birds sing

    Anymore, nor stars, nor summer lightning

    (Anna Akhmatova)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Blue Giraffe no. 12 2013 6944640 2013 periodical issue 2013 pg. 22
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