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CHERRY BLOSSOM
Blossoms are out on the trees, on the trees
at the Medway Maritime Hospital
With their elegant shapes and their heady perfumes,
they colour the morning air.
Springtime has come to the alleys and lanes
criss-crossed at the back of the hospital,
Flowering cherry and crab apple sleeving
the branches so lately bare.
Doctors from Africa, scarfed in their stethoscopes,
stride up the paths to the hospital,
A fluttering, chattering scatter of birds
is disturbed by a hospital cat.
In a little grey shelter beyond the gate
of the Medway Maritime Hospital,
Freckle-faced home and colonial nurses
convene ...