as a road should never do,
closed off even as it continues
towards its green retinue
in a long grey disguise.


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One sprig should do, in a wayfarer’s satchel, to assist in losing all bearings until...
as a road should never do,
closed off even as it continues
towards its green retinue
in a long grey disguise.
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Rachael Boast's Sidereal won the Foreward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize. 'Compass Plant' is taken from Pilgrim's Flower, forthcoming from Picador in October.
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