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This poem is taken from PN Review 235, Volume 43 Number 5, May - June 2017.

microtome sections Drew Milne
i.m. Tom Raworth

errata over the payslip
binding twine
where scissors the grind
said talking
the quiver of the margin
echoes right
to left then as ever
erring leftwards
into leaf skeleton all
bruising cheek

mark one to blue bird
and Maeterlinck
out of Nijinsky the land
speed record
talking to walking in
Loch Ness water
styling out of crude carb
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