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Poems by Jackie Kay

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That Distance Apart

... I shall suffocate her with a feather pillowBury her under a weeping willow ...

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Baby Lazarus

... Cursed myself digging a pit for my baby ...

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The Mother Poem (two)

... Told and committed suicide on their wedding nightsI always believed in the telling anyhow ...

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Sound Of Sleat

... And raise a glass to the girl looking back at me ...

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Late Love

... The past with its rush of velvet, its secret hushAlready miles away, dimming now, in the late day ...