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Bank Holiday weekend, sunny day, very English, very rare,ready to be enjoyed,plants planted, patio scrubbed,pots watered, wine chilled,recliners recli..
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Returning after three years,Paul Verlaine pushed open the creaking garden gate. Dew glistened on the flowers in the morning sunshine. Eve..
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.Six hundred years ago, this was Mary Magdalene in designer dress,wife-to-be of a Florentine noble,the painting, a family commission.
To palazzo gue..
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I remember, yes, I too rememberthe house where I was born,and the only photograph I rememberis the one I do not haveof the front, taken before the war..
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Here's Pierrot and some dreamy-eyed boaters -they must be us, I’m sure you’ll agree -pretending to let something escape:metaphor-stuff tri..
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In the Musée Lamartine,in Mâcon, I was ready to pay homageto the great man,starting with his umbrellain a stand by the door,when my compa..
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Of every dreamthat could haunt me,this one insinuatesirresistibly,like a bubble that might waftacross our summer gardenand, disconcertingchattering ca..
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i. 1954Either mistaken half a mile off targetfrom the blacked-out Mersey docks,or off-loaded onto with full apologieson the way back to the Fatherlan..
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My dear Nitty Nora,the biddy explorer,is made of mod-plasticand wears old sea-boots.As I am rolling
dreams of my own,she takes off her boots
and fid..
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Defining comedy extends into break ….In the playground the fat one they callElmer is wriggling against the wall again,inviting, enjoying jibes,..
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