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Ruth Padel Short Poems

Famous Short Ruth Padel Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Ruth Padel. A collection of the all-time best Ruth Padel short poems


by Ruth Padel
 The ground verdigris, fluffy with young mosquitoes.
Waters as sacred as these, as fatted with reeds.
Bronze palm planted to Sun.
Lizards, Nile alligators, hindquarters rolling on granite sphinx-chippings.
Air salted with confident brown larks, Travelling, you remember (mind upturning these foreign priests, finding the causes) that stamen-summit: white long unbloody altar, giddy blues under you, calyx of bronze flat islands unfolding, blind.