Poetry Reading: chrysalis, by Tierney Chapman
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1m 36s
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
back
from the dead
The Painted Ladies
tremble
in the heather
the change has come
as ephemeral Large Blues
emerge
from their buried
chamber
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