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Four poems by Adrian Green
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER

Cardiff Bay
i.m. James Green (d 23 May 1881)

Today the colours of evening
caught in the lens of a lengthening day
are shadowed by the past –

a sepia history
of the coking coal in mounds
awaiting dockside ships.

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