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ONE MORE FOR THE BEAUTIFUL TABLE by HELEN DUNMORE

First Line: DENSE SLABS OF BRAIDED-UP LUPINS
Last Line: FADED TO MAUVE AND TO WHITE AND TO CRISP %BROWN DRIFTS BENEATH BARE SEPALS - %LOOK, THEY HAVE WASHED

Poem Sources:

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



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