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Quadrant Online

January-February 2008

Volume LII Number 1-2

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Poetry

Two Ballinas

Geoff Page

Two Ballinas I have in mind
though they are separately pronounced —
the Irish one is “Balli-na”.
We drove straight through it unannounced.

The place was cold with Sunday cars
all parked and no one on the streets.
I thought about the one back home,
flowering in its liquid heat.

Geoff Page

 

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