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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 16:55

When we take prisoners from other worlds

we are not cruel. We let their bodies die.

They become words, filtered into air…

—Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny”

published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857541885

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