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The Guardian - UK
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Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: In the Tunnel of Summers by Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson.
‘I am eight and eighteen and eighty / all the Augusts of my day’ … Anne Stevenson. Illustration: RR/Rowan Righelato

In the Tunnel of Summers

Moving from day into day,
I don’t know how,
eating these plums now
this morning for breakfast
tasting of childhood’s
mouth-pucker tartness,
watching the broad light
seed in the fences,
honey of barley,
gold ocean, grasses,
as the tunnel of summers,
of nothing but summers,
opens again
in my travelling senses.

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