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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

For Manhattan

By Diane di Prima

leanfingered
slenderhipped

ah hubris, hubris

what does the wind do to you
lot you care
and the night, bedding down
slipping into you easy

lady when there are stars
does it help?

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From Diane de Prima’s collection Earthsong, published by Poets Press, New York, 1968