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VALENTINE

 

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naked in our bed

 

while winter’s wake

awakes me

 

blessed by your

caress

 

underfoot

and in the air

 

and all four seasons

in day

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TOM PICKARD lives in North East UK, in Tommy Armstrong country. His most recent work includes Fiends Fell (Flood Editions, 2017), Winter Migrants (Carcanet Press, 2016), and hoyoot: Collected Poems and Songs (Carcanet, 2014). He is currently working on volume 2 of Fiends Fell.