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- Article Title: The Dogs of Darghan Street
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There are no lions to whelp in the street any more,
and conversely
the Council by-laws forbid
the keeping of the pigs and chickens, goats and cattle
whose prodigious multiplications
could serve as an adequate metaphor
and there are only so many burgeoning plants
you can squeeze into a one-by-three-metre courtyard
but the possums have come back,
and the daylight moon
and the daylight moon
has hung around
weeks longer than it should
and although the balcony doors
have been closed
for months against the cold
several almost-forgotten
species of finch
have come back into the bushes below –
and the dogs of Darghan Street, well, the dogs
lick our hands
assiduously
as if they knew something that their masters did
not know.
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