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Image: \u00a9 Charles Eastwood<\/span><\/p>\n

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postcard from atta, guyana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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my m<\/strong>other’s footprints<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The tales she’d tell\u00a0<\/p>\n

exotic morpho mother\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I chase them in East Street<\/p>\n

as I search for her home<\/p>\n

find only scrubland<\/p>\n

look for clues at Kitty<\/p>\n

all trace washed away<\/p>\n

of her swims in muddy seas<\/p>\n

further on at Mahaica<\/p>\n

cane-fields tell stories<\/p>\n

of abandonment and<\/p>\n

now i understand why<\/p>\n

her sad face is the same<\/p>\n

as her daydreaming face<\/p>\n

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\u00a0____<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mary Mulholland is a London-based poet and editor. She has pamphlets from Broken Sleep and Live Canon and a collection forthcoming from Nine Arches. She founded the platform Red Door Poets. http:\/\/www.marymulholland.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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