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Poetry

Pascal’s Carriage

by Peter Abbs

On November 23rd 1654, the two front horses of Pascal’s carriage dashed over the parapet of the bridge at Neuilly.

After that – the fission of a moment, horses rearing up
and plunging over, and the man hanging there,
suspended above the running black and blank of water –

how the celebrity aged, stared at the rent in his coat,

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