“Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love…I am trying to be truthful.”

—  Carol Ann Duffy

Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).

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British writer and professor of contemporary poetry 1955

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