[THE OLD YEAR RIPENING …]
(Composed prior to 1971; no known manuscript; reconstructed from memory by Editor)The old year ripening into new school uniforms:
Mellow as the afternoon the sunlit paths
Of uncombed schoolboys, untidy as chrysanthemums,
Whooping to the chippy from the High Street baths.
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