Dedication: Cento for Beginners.
Author's note: This poem samples Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Parts1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 9 of
‘Nasturtium as Reality’; and Seamus Heaney, Parts I, III & IV of ‘Bone Dreams’, Parts VI & XI of ‘Starion Island’, Parts III and IV of ‘Field Work’, ‘Summer Home’ and ‘The Peninsula’.