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Don Paterson

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Bandage Shoulder

"The thread is holding all of us. Look at our tiny house son, the white dot of your mother waving," he says. "I realize that you know, you realize these things respectively." He reads a few aphorisms from Kavafi and then writes about his love for an old friend who had been wounded in some way. The poem ends with 'All my love, my love's blood'

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