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Jacob Polley
A JAR OF HONEY
A JAR OF HONEY
A JAR OF HONEY
You hold it like a lit bulb,a pound of light,
and swivel the stunned glow
around the fat glass sides:
it’s the sun, all flesh
and no bones
but for the floating
knuckle of honeycomb.
© 2003, Jacob Polley. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge and White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN
From: The Brink
Publisher: Picador, London
From: The Brink
Publisher: Picador, London
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A JAR OF HONEY
You hold it like a lit bulb,a pound of light,
and swivel the stunned glow
around the fat glass sides:
it’s the sun, all flesh
and no bones
but for the floating
knuckle of honeycomb.
From: The Brink
A JAR OF HONEY
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