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Guernsey Literary Festival

Sponsored by

Specsavers

Supported by

Guernsey Arts

when you are away and I am wrestling with sleep
I have learnt to hold my own hand
to feel my body giving and receiving
warmth to and from itself

it has taken all the years of our distance love
to show me how to comfort myself
in solitude as I would comfort
a lover   a family member   a friend