I’m out here now
on the roof. Look!
I had to get nearer the sky,
For the city was too full of rooms
And I can’t be content with a window…

—Margaret Tait, “A Poem for a Morning”
published in Margaret Tait: poems, stories & writings (Carcanet, 2012)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800173798/poems-stories-and-writings/

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