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Poem
Night Visiting
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A wallowy wet night
they called me in.
‘They want a doctor, only a doctor will do.'
I take the back steps into the hospice,
tiptoe past the dark.
‘The family are waiting.'
I follow the nurse's translucent finger
pointing the way.
‘I must see the patient first.' …
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