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GETTING THROUGH CUSTOMS
I pick my memories up
as if from an air port Carousel
but they are not quite
as I remember them
now lumpy and heavier
than I recall
they might not even be mine
full of contraband
Ouzing out of concealed
compartments like
corked wine.
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Bernard's work has appeared in many publications, including; Aesthetica Magazine and The Edinburgh Review, FourXFour, Crossways, Nymphs, The Gentian. In 2017 a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019 he won second prize in The Aurora Prize for Writing for his poem Manor Farm.
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