Michael Shepherd Family Poems

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The Family Room. For Mary.
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You put up with it because
as tiresome as it is, and as they can sometimes be,
somewhere there, there's always love.
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2.
0400 The Family
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Seen from the back as
they walk along the dusty summer road, with
the sheep straying onto the verges where
a tuft of more succulent grass may linger
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