Having glided smoothly upwards –
Up ...!
And up ...!
And up ...!
Behold, Tony Blair standing where he should be –
poised sixty years and more above
the city of his birth…
—Ron Butlin, “Tony Blair’s Butterfly Effect”
published in THE MAGICIANS OF SCOTLAND (Birlinn, 2015)
Listen to Ron Butlin read this poem on the Poetry Archive:
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/tony-blairs-butterfly-effect/
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