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By Cally Conan-Davies
This isn’t maths —
perhaps it is
a collapse
of certainties.

Perhaps it can’t
configure planes,
yet it can cloud
our blue remains

so when we fall
as rain will do,
nothing fails
to carry through.

Source: Poetry (May 2012)
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