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Humility Gillian Bickley - UK
What was it he had found? ─ A dynosaur’s print in the hills? Signs of the earliest man? . . . Something like this. ─ Something stupendous and marvelous, out of an ordinary man’s way. ─ But what I remember is him; his total humility. “What did you feel like, “when you found it?” the television reporter asked. And the Italian ─ or Frenchman ─ said, “A bit afraid. “ ─ A discovery, too big for me. ─ “And then I thought, “may be it is God’s gift.”
Noted 2003; completed 2004
From Gillian Bickley, Moving House and other Poems From Hong Kong, Proverse Hong Kong, 2005, distributed in Hong Kong and worldwide by: The Chinese University Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; Tel: (INT+852) 2609-6508; Fax: (INT+852) 2603-7355; cup@cuhk.edu.hk; web: cuhk.edu.hk/cupress; distributed in the United Kingdom and worldwide except Hong Kong by: A&NESFHS, 158-164 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5BD, Scotland, UK. Tel: INT+[0]+1224-646323; Fax: INT+[0]+1224-639096; email: publications@anesfhs.org.hk
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