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England June 2019: Cold Morning Rain







tympani tin pan ten million soft drums

reverberations, a watery train  

door closing wood thunder car whooshing thrum

purr engines carve a diagonal vein





cough muffle shout muffle coo muffle coo

sweet trickle birdsong comes trickling through

 child cry and man shout and child cry again

through the soft cold song of cold morning rain

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