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'Today the Dog of Heaven swallowed the sun.
Birds twanged for the dusk and fell silent,
one puzzled flock after another.
African egrets, parakeets; Chinese crows...'
No manuscripts by Fleur Adcock have been sold at auction. Publication of this poem has not been traced: not in Selected Poems, 1991.