Powell To The People ... From Prose To Verse [Part 2]

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THE YOUNG LADIES

OF MISS MILLAND'S SCHOOL

Galloped back to 

the riding academy.

Nurses wheeled toward the gates

perambulators whose size

and expensive unwieldiness

deliberately revealed the status

of their occupants.

Lost children ran through

the bushes screaming "Mama!"

Twilight lovers began to appear...

and in tranquil twos

selected benches for

their lovemaking,

a public park being 

more private than

its alternative,

a family living room.

Dawn Powell

THE STORY OF A COUNTRY BOY

Quoted from
pages 186-187
of this edition

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Dawn Powell page
is  here.  

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