All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead. (Alun Lewis)

All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead.

Alun Lewis

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