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Lightning Strikes School Tree
No-one saw it but me and I had my eyes shut:
Taken from 'Aliquot'...I’d given the class their Thomas Hardy worksheets, the bell had gone off, hinging our double period, everybody was scraping their chairs about, there was an agreed low level of laugh and chat and doubtless some thought was authentically bent to the poem, some to the fizzy striplight, some to the weight of the next forty minutes and some to the far field out of the window where – as I say – with my eyes shut I saw not the flash but the mid-distance lime tree pulled flat like the loop in a seam at the fact of a needle: and then when I blinked I could still see the needle, and I had my eyes shut. |
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