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Monday 1 September 2014

Van Mildert’s Portrait

At first I thought of it as a week of my life
Without a single memory 
I sat in the cathedral and pondered

Did I not go on to the rooftop
Was it not possible to look down on the prison
Are these simply, a nowadays, imagination

I am more certain
Of a formidable figure hung high
In the university dining halls

He was overlooking
Indeed overpowering the diners
As they sat in the refectory

As they stumbled through their lunch
As they remained, strangers one and all
Who left my life, without a single memory