A New Ulster poetry anthology

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Chimerical (Bob Shakeshaft) It is beguiling this place is no place not really though then again it is I have some memories of that smell of blackberries picking them held me in the moment everything forgotten just now I noticed the bamboo stick I am one of three hunkering down on the bank of the silver-spoon river catching tadpoles for our jam-jar aquarium ephemeral of course like all it is destined to fizzle out when I dream out

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