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Today, we have 70 poems + 11 stories + 3 essays = 84 works by 43 authors
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| This Burning by Fiona Robyn |  |
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| It is cold. I sit in the centre of a circle of nuns. They are lying under the grass, their heads or feet pointing towards me. Each sister is marked with a stump of stone with a silver plaque to show her name, how long she had, when she was taken by God. Off to the left are trees, and to my right four fat pheasants are wandering around the convent's gardens. Further away the hills are under mist. I think a fire is gently crackling somewhere hidden in the trees until I turn and really listen. It is the orangey leaves, they are glancing off each other as they fall, cracking, pattering and landing with a whisper. There are four more stones a little way from the others. Here, holes were dug for Annie, Irene, Frances and Joan, all of them children. Sister Elizabeth Hannon had ninety-six chances to hear this burning. Annie had ninety less. |
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