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Three poems by Mark Granier
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER

Travellers on Pigeon House Road

Some years now, since they were moved on
by a long acre of boulders set down
magisterially as glacial erratics.

Driving the bay side, where drifts of sand
lap the road like a desiccated sea,
I used call on Arthur and Margaret

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