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Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park by Herbert Lomas 'Spring's come, a little late, in the park: a tree-rat smokes flat S's over the lawn. A mallard has somehow forgotten something it can't quite remember. Daffodils yawn, prick their ears, push their muzzles out for a kiss. Pansies spoof pensive Priapus faces: Socrates of Verlaine. A cock-pigeon is sexually harassing a hen: pecking and poking and padding behind her impertinently, bowing and mowing. But when he's suddenly absent-minded- can't keep even sex in his head- she trembles, stops her gadding, doubts and grazes his way. He remembers and pouts.'

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