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Andrew was born as his parents fled Hungary for France. He did his kindergarten in Algeria, elementary school in Australia, high school in France, and university in Canada, where lived 20 years. Then 10 years un Texas and California with his second wife and daughter born in Dallas. They returned to settle in England in 2006. Andrew wrote his first poem Belle Societe in 1976, and has written in Englsih since 2001.)

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Holborn

And there you stand on the platform
Gaze in the distance early morn
I've seen you off and on
But only traveller anon'

In the tube I see you again
Walk up, “Hello” I say
“We get on the same station and...”
Recognition lights up your face

We banter in the crowd and heat
Squeeze into the carriage
Separate in the human press
You look over and I smile back

When you get off you smile
I mouth ‘see you later’
Nice to make connection
Amid the crowd of a million

When you stepped off the train
Did you step in my life or out
Is it a comma, a period
Question or exclamation mark

(March 2009)

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