Sometimes

               Life begs

To disbelief

He wore our shirt

So was one of us

Togethers as one YNWA

And now one is gone

And the family

Beggars’ disbelief

From the smallest

To the new bride

Mother, grandmothers

Footballers he celebrated with

close their eyes

We collectively hold you

        And all who remember you

Will Nev...

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Sixty tonne of metal bellowing down the sky

assails the quietude

of reeds and muddy pools

where spoonbills sift through sludge and seagulls drift nearby.

The mouth of the Ria Formosa’s a birders’ paradise:

miles of salt pans hosting

birds of low-lying coastline,

in thousands upon thousands. It’s Eden beyond price

in every way but one: the fence of Faro A...

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