as if brooding over a puzzling stranger ("Photograph of Myself"). The poems about survival are especially powerful because there is a relaxing of her guard. "Procedure" is a particularly lovely surprise. It involves almonds as the taste of critical illness but turns, sip by sip, into a hymn to tea and a thank you--to whom it may concern--for being alive to drink it.Procedure
from The Guardian: Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
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