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Winter Waiting

Is he here? Is he back? I asked them: No one seemed to know. I ran outside to look for him As fast as I could go, Into an empty courtyard And the sibilance of snow. Anonymous......

Pearl Diver No One Dives To The Ocean Bottom Just

like that: One cannot learn the skills involved At the drop of a hat: It's the slow-learnt skills in the depths of love That I'm working at. Lady Nakatomi (8th century)......

Books

They are rotting Paul Foot TIME BOMB: IRISH BOMBS, ENGLISH JUSTICE AND THE GUILDFORD FOUR by Grant McKee and Ros Franey Bloomsbury, £4.95, pp.498 h e evidence, or should I say......

Stiffening The Sinews

David Owen PEACE: THE PLAIN MAN'S GUIDE TO WAR PREVENTION by Hugh Hanning Cecil Woolf, 1 Mornington Place, London NW! 7RP, E9.95, pp. 160 h e UN is back in favour. With the UN......