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Pernod

With cold fennel soup

Calves liver and onion mash.

Chatter

Everywhere except

Up on deck eight

Where silent stars

Emerge above the distant ships

Glinting glow-worms in the dark

While engines throb a constant heart beat

Sensed, unheard from

Deep below.

Brian Hick autumn 2013 on a Fred Olsen cruise to Norway

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