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warham fort

warham fort

fresh morning blossom hangs lush over rusted fence
   boots upward crunch northward - cooling sea -
a scraggled hedgrow wearing meadow flowers
   obscures the ordered furrows of white shooted potato

     and you rise rubber treaded
for now your shoulders' grown accustom to the weight
    relish bouncing underslung tent
your feet keep time to the piccolo sporks
    plastere...

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