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A GENTLE ART by EAMON GRENNAN

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First Line: I'VE BEEN LEARNING HOW TO LIGHT A FIRE
Last Line: like a child grown up, growing strange
Subject(s): GROWTH; MATURITY;

Full Poem Text Available at
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