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This poem is taken from PN Review 271, Volume 49 Number 5, May - June 2023.

Manchester Cathedral from the Corn Exchange Mary Griffiths
Painting of Manchester Cathedral from the Corn Exchange


‘…
Of luring words like flocks of birds
To settle bookwards, readerwards
And oh – why not – eternitywards!’

Edwin Morgan ‘I ought to write this in Nahuatl’

Mary Griffiths, ‘Manchester Cathedral from the Corn Exchange’ (2023)
Photo © Michael Pollard
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