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Poem by Roger Iredale

Games at dawn

Poem by Roger Iredale

by Roger Iredale 4th November 2022

Children are the throats of blackbirds
easing laughter out of half-light. Dawn
raises curtains and the play begins. Trains
emerge from skirting-boards, dinosaurs
bark circles on the rug, while an army
racks the carpet with its tiny dead.