Pat Boran

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Pen Knife

Still smelling of oranges
after years in this drawer
among buttons, paperclips,
envelopes, old specs . . .

a present from you;
designed to sever,
it’s the one thing
that somehow connects.

Pat Boran

(Ierland, 1963)

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Pen Knife

Still smelling of oranges
after years in this drawer
among buttons, paperclips,
envelopes, old specs . . .

a present from you;
designed to sever,
it’s the one thing
that somehow connects.

From: New and Selected Poems