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Eileen G'Sell
Life After Rugby
A brave dog will teach you to swim
and Jim will fix your furnace.
Song will wake the spiders
you have hidden in your sleep.
Your arms, lovers, long at the wrist
will wrestle with a hubcap.
Change dropped from another’s suit
will glisten if you keep it.
Posted 07/03/09
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I think you have changed this a lot since I last saw it? I love the potent simplicity of this incarnation! Lyrically mysterious. Nice one G'Sell.
Matthew
08/13/09 4:09pm