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The Silence (Carcanet Poetry) The Silence by Gillian Clarke
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“They are counting the dead.
They ask the old to die willingly.
Sign here, please. There will be
no mourners, no funeral.

Wind is our choir, owl our plainsong.
Birds sing our penillion.
Silence in the first spring leaves
is prayer, last rights and requiem.


- The Hours: Sext
Gillian Clarke, The Silence