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Opened Ground (2010) - Plot & Excerpts

          If I lifted my eyes, a factory chimney           And a dormant mountain.
              If I listened, an engine shunting           And a trotting horse.
              Is it any wonder when I thought           I would have second thoughts?
    II When they spoke of the prudent squirrel’s hoard It shone like gifts at a nativity.
    When they spoke of the mammon of iniquity The coins in my pockets reddened like stove-lids.
    I was the march drain and the march drain’s banks Suffering the limit of each claim.
    III           Two buckets were easier carried than one.
              I grew up in between.
              My left hand placed the standard iron weight.
              My right tilted a last grain in the balance.

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