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Wing Musicfrom 'Lea Valley Sequences'Briar Wood
lift off
as if their misty myth cargo
could carry us in Leda's lovers' grip
defiant as gravity
rowers and narrow boats
leaving below
the green weeded slip
stream slide
currents run
aground
over flowing
mown banks
circle
the flamenco houseboats
tasselled alders
plumed poplars
glowing
eiderdown towns
Saint George flags
fishing floats
eccentric residents
six o'clock scrape of dinner plates
watch out
the lock brimming
not reading Shelley
watching telly gape
at their sheer mysterious
air swimming
swish upstroke swish throb swish throb downstroke
swish
mile on miles swish throb swish throb swish throbs wish
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