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The Alembick



Vol. XIV

I. All Saint’s Day 2019
II. Christmas 2019
III. Shrovetide 2020
IV. Quarantine 2020

Vol. XV

I. Michaelmas 2020
    1. Editor’s Note
    2. Letters
    3. The Jester
    4. Fall
    5. A Bachelor’s Complaint
    6. From a Bachelor’s Notebook
    7. After ‘Tintern Abbey’     8. The Properties of Love
    9. The North Shore Girl’s Lament
    10. Ornithology
    11. From the Latin

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The Jester


Today & tomorrow & yesterday too
He rhymes and sidles, away from you
He wanders like a vagrant, in a band 
He holds your experience in a skeletal hand
Aspirating s's like a tea kettle's rasp
His words spin wicked, they hurt to grasp
He poses like a jester, or a ghost-faced mime
He stares at you from the depths of time

                                                            Zoa
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