There Was A Word For That: Foyle Young Poets Winners Anthology 2017

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Cia Mangat breaststroke I’ve watched the layers of water between your shrivelled fingers how you peel them back prunes against sheets of paper one by one until the seal of the swimming pool’s been broken until you’re able to make it wide enough for you to investigate stroke its underside tickle its belly you’ve suspended everything I can’t understand how you do it or why whenever I

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