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MISSILE LAUNCHER PASSING AT NIGHT by HELEN DUNMORE

First Line: THE SOFT FIELDS PART IN HEDGES, EACH
Last Line: BOOTS SCRAPE %HOLLY BURSTS AGAINST WET WALLS %LOST AT THE MOMENT OF HAPPENING

Poem Sources:

SHORT DAYS, LONG NIGHTS; NEW & SELECTED POEMS.
  DUNMORE, HELEN
  (1991)
 
OUT OF THE BLUE.
  DUNMORE, HELEN
  (2002)
 



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