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voyeurism

Approaching Sixty - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

In the Central Café
/ in Innsbruck,
/ a girl in a dark-blue dress
/ unlooses her hair from its clasp
/ so it falls to her waist,…

Dolphins at Cochin - by Tom Buchan

{ Poem }

They crashed among the spider-nets
/ spluttering and breathing hoarsely,
/ chasing fish out of the water,
/ calling one another and disappearing.
/
/ Lime-green bellies and smiling…

After Visiting an Asylum - by Alexander Robertson

{ Poem }

I saw them sitting on a grassy bank –
/ Under the shade of mighty trees they were;
/ Yet those they saw…

The Sunlit Surfaces - by D. M. Black

{ Poem }

Ein Bild des Glaubens ist das schöne Weib:
/ Sie ist ein ja, und sie ist grenzenlos.
/ …

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