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Quadrant Online

January-February 2008

Volume LII Number 1-2

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Poetry

Kentish Cousins

Geoff Page

Visiting her Kentish cousins,
partner’s only, not my own,
I feel the stories ramify,
an unsought gift I have on loan:

stories of their vanished parents—
and ten steps even further back
I share some DNA in Bromley
just three stations up the track.

Geoff Page

 

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