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Just ahead

Alan Jackson

Just ahead of hunger’s where I ride,
Below the rocks, above the tide.
Wind in my cape, star above,
We leap the debris and laugh for love.

Alan Jackson

from Salutations: Collected Poems 1960-1989 (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990)

Reprinted by permission of the author.

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emancipation riding seashore short poems
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