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The Sunburst

The Sunburst by Michael Longley (b.1939) ' Her first memory is of light all around her As she sits among pillows on a patchwork quilt Made out of uniforms, coat linings, petticoats, Waistcoats, flannel shirts, ball gowns, by Mother Or Grandmother, twenty stitches to very inch, A flawless version of World without End or Cathedral Window or a diamond pattern That radiates from the smallest grey square Until the sunburst fades into the calico. 'Michal Longley (b.1939) Reprinted by permission of Random House from The Weather in Japan (Cape 2000) Poems on the Underground

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