Les Murray

Nursing Home

Ne tibi supersis: don't outlive yourself, panic, or break a hip or spit purée at the staff at the end of gender, never a happy ender - yet in the pastel light of indoors, there is a lady who has distilled to love beyond the fall of memory. She sits holding hands with an ancient woman who calls her brother and George as bees summarise the garden.

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