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COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE SUMMER 2023
W A Fahey
CUCUMBERS
They must be stripped of their dark leathery surcoats and quartered, like
Green girls refulgently splayed on de Sade’s cool bed.
Lightly salted, a quarter should be consumed in three bites
With a glass of vodka a plateful recalls a summer day ‘tossing clouds
Into the pond’ of Boris Pasternak.
Not too full of seeds.