The Avenue

Portrait of Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon 1951–

Now that we've come to the end I've been trying to piece it together, Not that distance makes anything clearer. It began in the half-light While we walked through the dawn chorus After a party that lasted all night, With the blackbird, the wood-pigeon, The song-thrush taking a bludgeon To a snail, our taking each other's hand As if the whole world lay before us.

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