Polly Clark

Polly Clark’s most recent collection was Take Me with You.

Two Poems

Polly Clark, 21 June 2007

Farewell My Lovely

A really good detective never gets married. Raymond Chandler

I’d gotten used to that roomy grin, the face like a bag of facts, the flank round as a pony’s, and the way she had of blending in so badly. But after all, I didn’t really know her, neither she nor I being the intimate type.

          I take a slug...

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