Volume LII Number 1-2
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Horse-floats here in Sweden prompt
an overdue analysis.
You trail behind them slowly, wondering
how it could have come to this.
Once, between the shafts, they dragged us
cheerily with no great fuss.
Now, it seems, we’re towing them
when they should still be towing us.
Geoff Page

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