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One Summer EveningAuthor(s): Gary AllenSource: Irish Pages, Vol. 2, No. 1, Empire (Spring/Summer, 2003), p. 59Published by: Irish Pages LTDStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30057248 .

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or the knowledge that my seal was set:

the lorry engines warming-up in the depots seemed to tell me with a sigh,

This is the twenty-eighth word - and the Lord answered, The desert among my earths.

ONE SUMMER EVENING

This woman here wanted the sun to make her new,

went out the back children's ragged clothes left on the boil,

a husband hammering chairs together in the front room,

but got no farther than the line of telegraph-poles stretching like a chain

between peat-bogs

and returned disconcerted to a house where no one knew she had left

and a kitchen steamed with the loss of light.

Gary Allen was born in 1959 in Ballymena, Co Antrim and lived for many years on the

Continent. Hisfirst book of poems, Languages (Flambard/Black Mountain) appeared in 2000.

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