This poem is taken from Stand 222, 17(2) May - June 2019.

Jim Maguire Three Poems
Losing Violet (or Burgher, gardener, gamba man)

A provincial cathedral, after a musical performance


Queue to shake his hand, father?  
I’m thirty-two –

I told you son he is master of the viols.
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