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not knowing
how it feels
for this to be
ordinary
A mundane
world of work
where quarriers
win the downsvein
the kerbstones
slabs and paves
the urbane skin
of level streets
where we walk
upright and
unburdened by
an empty sky
First published in Wri en in Stone (ed. Paul Hyland) Purbeck Footprints 2009
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