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Evening All Day A Poem by John Eliot
No sunset
No sunrise
No streaks of red
announce
a beginning
a dissolving
Only a calotype
sepia silver crystal
sliding against
wire
suspended over
grey blue universe
called raindrop
John Eliot, author of chapbook Ssh, available from all bookshops and online stores,
£4.99. This poem Evening All Day is previously unpublished. It was written to be
read at the Laurent Millet exhibition in Angers, France. John Eliot is the first Englishspeaking poet to be asked to read at the event.
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