Rain Taxi review for Collected Poems
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If I could see, not surfaces,
But could express
What lies beneath the skin
Where the blood moves
In fruit or head or stone,
Then would I know the one
Essential
And my eyes
When dead
Would give the worm
No hollow food."
An extract from the review by Jeff Bursey