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In the Downsvein
Langton Matravers
Paul Hyland
Underground
we can read
by candlelight
how the earth climbs
Rocks’ strata
lt gently
roof dented where
dinosaurs walk
Beneath them
we are bent
in the narrow
low quarry lane
with the weight
of ages
countless small deaths
stacked at our backs
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