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Migrants
Carole Bromley
And so they took to the boats
knowing nothing could be worse,
not hunger, not disease, not shipwreck,
not the unkindness of strangers.
The eight year old boy
gestures in my sleep, over
and over, putting imaginary food
into his mouth.
Carole Bromley is a teacher from York. Published by Smith/Doorstop, she has two pamphlets and a full collection, A Guided Tour of the Ice House (2011) and a new collection, The Stonegate Devil, coming out in October.
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