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Another Occasion
ОглавлениеAccept this from me
as you might accept
on another occasion
a small, dried fish
from the hand of an old man.
You are in his kitchen
sitting at his bare table.
It is clean after
the fashion of old men.
Sunlight rides to the floor
on motes of dust.
The fish, on a small plate.
You must be hungry,
he urges, please eat.
Accept this from me:
Twenty years after his death
my father appeared
in a dream. He stood
