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Deposition
Deposition - Kevin Ireland
Deposition
I cannot
give you words
which turned
as succulent as flesh
upon the nib:
thin men
write gaunt poems
and each word
sticks out
like a rib
from Anzac Day: Selected Poems (Hazard Press, 1997), © Kevin Ireland 1997, used by permission of the author. Recording from the Waiata New Zeland Poetry Sound Archive (1974).