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this pale sack of skin
over a ball and cup socket frame of bones ventricles and auricles aortic arches and inner muscular contractions causing arterial blood to pass through semilunar valves while nerve ends configure light photons and vibrations of air so that sense becomes aware of this body's own capacity for self-repair chromosomal impetus and hunger continue forward |
Sam Smith is editor of The Journal (once 'of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry'), and publisher of Original Plus books. He has been a psychiatric nurse, residential social worker, milkman, plumber, laboratory analyst, groundsman, sailor, computer operator, scaffolder, gardener, painter & decorator.... working at anything, in fact, which paid the rent, enabled him to raise his three daughters and which hasn’t got too much in the way of his writing. He has several poetry collections and novels to his name, has won prizes and awards, organized festivals and readings. Now in his 70s he has ended up living in South Wales.
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