This poem is taken from PN Review 133, Volume 26 Number 5, May - June 2000.

Two Poems

Les Murray

The Tin Clothes

This is the big arrival.
The zipper of your luggage
growls valise round three sides
and you lift out the tin clothes.


The Successive Arms

A drunk man in a rank shirt
unsteadily walks the street
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