Jamie McKendrick Biography

We don't know if tomorrow has green pastures
in mind for us to lie down in beside
the ever-youthful patter of fresh water
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As if I had nothing better to do,
and who says I have, than putting the house
I haven't got in order, I sit at the oak desk
I have got, though really a table not a desk
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That first day, to break me in,
my hardened comrades
sent me scampering like a marmoset
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The digging creature has been at work again
out there — first a modest trough with a crest
of dry earth, fit for a starling or a thrush
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A friend of mine met the son of a man
who it seems was eaten by a polar bear
in Iceland where the bear had stepped ashore
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