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'&' by Chris Arnold | States of Poetry WA - Series Two

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States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two

'&' by Chris Arnold | States of Poetry WA - Series Two

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States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two

you opt for form over colour
makeup smudged lenses
pale bare planes by the lakes;
a cygnet ellipsis in black
parenthetical necks;
white sky reflected in high water.

we sit where I have stayed
and watched an oak open and close –
green again – the bench
suspended on ampersands.

Chris Arnold

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