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Pat Boran

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Pen Knife

Still smelling of oranges
after years in this drawer
among buttons, paperclips,
envelopes, old specs . . .

a present from you;
designed to sever,
it’s the one thing
that somehow connects.

Pat Boran

(Ireland, 1963)

Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise, Ireland, in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin. Prior to taking over the running of the press in 2005, he had published four collections of poetry with Dedalus: The Unwound Clock (1990), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems (first published by Salt P...

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Pen Knife

Still smelling of oranges
after years in this drawer
among buttons, paperclips,
envelopes, old specs . . .

a present from you;
designed to sever,
it’s the one thing
that somehow connects.

From: New and Selected Poems