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Stow stay stow stay: 5

Anna Jackson

We are moving to Wellington
where I will be teaching

American literature
in the Twentieth century –

a century
a country
a century
a country

the art of the vast.

Hard to realise the century
is already past –

a history
a cemetery
a history
a cemetery

the century my children
were born in,

thirty six and a half
thousand days,

some of them
we lived in.