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Poems by Hugo Williams

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Facing into It

... it is then, brother, that I think of you, of your Caravaggio,  ...

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What loves, takes away

... of our fear, we lift the lid from the embers, and send  ...

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The Messenger

...  rising from the dark waters of flood, outlined bright  ...

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Reading the Bible Backwards

... on her haunches of stone, and the rain, as it runs down,  ...

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Magnificat

... by hidden gears, precious in miniature, tin soldiers,  ...

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Encounter in the Local Pub

... Unlike Francis Bacon, we no longer believe in the little patterns we make of the chaos of history ...

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Bat Cave

... So  the bat cave on the Bali coast, not far ...

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Without Regret

...   The lord has gone with the hunt, and the snow,  ...