Charlotte Peters Rock Biography

They gather in the Greeting Place
A smaller flock than once expected
Still elated - out from work and office
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Green as hanging heliconia
beneath the rosy moonlight

chattering incessantly out loud
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A darker shape
Flapping lazy through the further clouds

The great grey bird
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I want to sleep in the dorm, where the backpackers sleep,
and to laugh and to joke and to tell tales of woe,
and to catch midnight buses, where backpackers go,
and to scrimp and to pinch every penny with them.
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White haired and gay in London
with that determination born
of fleeing from Vienna
A Jew breaking up her life
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