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Kate Ruse was born in North London and lived in America, Israel, Nigeria, Malaysia and Singapore. She currently lives in Leicestershire and, as well as writing, teaches Art and Design.
Below is an excerpt from Yellow Star, one of a group of poems on the theme of colour.
He told me that back then
time was shapeless, hanging paralysed,
hardly passing at all.
Sunlight had fallen from his black coat
and hope stood like a paper lighthouse
while thieving death
ran feral into the thin light of dawn.
