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Carole Bromley - Migrants
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Migrants
Carole Bromley
And so they took to the boats
knowing nothing could be worse,
not hunger, not disease, not shipwreck,
not the unkindness of strangers.
The eight year old boy
gestures in my sleep, over
and over, putting imaginary food
into his mouth.
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