Going home on the last unretired 75, stinking of petrol

Buried her slash-tasselled coat like old Saxon groats

When an owner of oxgangs hears of Vikings along his coast.

The stoven ground yawning like their opened, bloodied throats;

The cold ground the only awning for the slaughtered pigs.

Mere mouse a tawny sought. Whole litter and it’s my pick.

For her lily-pallored ghost

A plot, mostly holes, one malnourished horse’s width.

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