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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: For Nothing Tender About It by Carl Phillips

A lone Indian fisherman oars his boat on Bhopal's upper lake early in the misty morning
‘But the lake looks endless. / And my boat’s increasingly but a slowish swimmer.’ Photograph: EPA

For Nothing Tender About It

If as shame is to memory, so too desire,
then is this desire, this cloak of shadows,
that I wrap close around me, that I
refuse to take off?

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