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'The Sudden Thaw And What It’s Doing To You'

To a Guardian columnist, who shall remain nameless


At the finish of the recent ice age, when
history suddenly wasn’t over any more
and another future began to be written

you were the first daffodil to push its face
up through earth frozen twenty-five years
before those with stronger stems followed
to better face what the wind would bring.

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