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Red Rag
Robert Maslen

I have a quiet reverence
for wild plastic sheeting.
I take it as a gift
of nature
born of a gale's munificence.

Look how they roil among the clouds –
shed-patch, triple-jumper, tramp-blanket, hawk –

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