Today Don Paterson’s new book “Rain,” slim and buoyant, appears with this near-perfect poem:
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The shudder in my son’s left hand
he cures with one touch from his right,
two fingertips laid feather-light
to still his pen. He understands
the whole man must be his own brother
for no man is himself alone;
though some of us have never known
the one hand’s kindness to the other.
Don Paterson
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Poem copyright © 2009 by Don Paterson
Writers: Don Paterson