Legend
Patrick Toland (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
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No mighty fleet,
No dash across the heath.
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I knew I had secured you
When I heard the plash and fall
Of feet on bathroom tiles,
Myself retreating softly, softly,
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Thinking you deserve a better
Author of these small mythologies.
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Patrick Toland is a teacher, Director of a Housing organisation and a mature student on the Oxford Masters of Studies in Writing. He recently had a winning poem, ‘The Naming of Stars’, in the Bodleian Science Library poetry competition 2011.
