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  https://amp.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/sep/20/poem-of-the-week-thames-by-john-challis The Guardian - Back to home News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: Thames by John Challis Bobbing and jostling with assorted fragments, London’s unsettled river here loses and finds its human past Carol Rumens Mon 20 Sep 2021 05.00 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Thames After a day of keeping tugs and waste disposal barges, sailing racers, showboats and commuter clippers afloat, the Thames turns inwardly to find a space to stretch out in, within a space no bigger than itself, and burrows through the mud and clay where every  London  intersects, to get its nose beneath the grave, then flips the past up like a coin to send afloat its drowned possessions: Anglo-Saxon ornaments, unexploded payloads, bone dice and oyster shells, wedding rings and number plates, and all those you might have been had your time