The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Helen Ivory - VI Pentacles
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VI Pentacles
Helen Ivory
The dog moon lolls belly up
on the floor of the sky
and a trick of the light
has cast on its side
a lion wearing a crown
like the old ten pence piece.
Hands reach up to the sky
from the land of the dead
and someone is busking
on a low pennywhistle
and a bear is dancing
chained up by its nose.
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