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Poem

Rembrandt with Seagulls

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December 2009–January 2010, no. 317
Poem

Rembrandt with Seagulls

by •
December 2009–January 2010, no. 317

A pause for thought and you lay down your pen,
Then have the inspiration to look up.
At first you’re scarcely able
To lift your focus past the coffee cup,
The paper-cluttered table.
But then the window gathers you again

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Stephen Edgar

Stephen Edgar’s anthology collection The Strangest Place: New and Collected Poems (Black Pepper 2020) won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2021. His latest collection is Ghosts of Paradise (Pitt Street Poetry 2023).  

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