Home  Poets Hunter, Ian
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Ian Hunter's writes children's novels, short stories and poetry, and also does the odd bit of editing. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Canada. A collection of poems inspired by the work of PJ Harvey entitled "The Polly Jean Project" is forthcoming from Read Raw Press, which will include the poem below.
THAT WAS MY VEIL
On a dummy in a charity shop window
On a rack of clothes next to the car
in the field at the car boot sale
On a table beside the church jumble
In a child’s dressing-up box
on top of the wardrobe
In a pile lying sodden beside the other
things dumped over the fence
Or flying on the wind, like a
strange tear
Don’t flinch
when it lands on your head,
Don’t pull it off
Wrap it around you
and listen
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