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'For all the pain of breath there is a sweetness living...'

Poem: Living at the edge

'For all the pain of breath there is a sweetness living...'

by Roger Iredale 26th July 2024

For all the pain of breath there is a sweetness living

at the edge. The rank volcano stamps its feet,

snorts at peasants working fields below the slopes,