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‘Gilding the Lily’

Rosalind Flatman
By Rosalind Flatman
Image: Andrew Collis

In relief, three lions’ heads
around a fragile urn
now lie in shattered fragments,
super-glue weaves a fine-lined thread,
the loaded paintbrush hesitates:
could gold-leafed amateur kintsugi
possibly enhance
perfection of those kingly poses?

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