MATTHEW HOLLIS ~

 

Commute

Rain on the river this morning —

a reminder that some day

the world must come down:

the heron from his high bank,

the terns in lasso above Battersea

or the planes descending over Kennington.

Each will work with the weather beneath them,

taking the tutelage of tide or wind

or engine to lift themselves up.

No one can soar indefinitely.

I am giving my life to you.

_________________________________

Matthew Hollis

Earth House

Bloodaxe Books, 2023

THE WASTE LAND ~

 

R E A D     M E

Reading a new superb book on Eliot and The Wasteland. I’m about to say on the Birdhouse the book has some of the same robust as The Pound Era. I wasn’t taking the book seriously until I was midway and then it dawned on me that I was the weakling here as a reader, the book is a marvel. I plan to continue where I woke up (midway) and finish the book and then out of respect must begin the book again and travel over everything I missed. I can pick up the thread midway in the book where I woke up since I know too well all the history and story but this is a fresh biography of the great poem, the great time, the great individual youngsters.

[ BA ]

    Norton 2022

EARTH ~

Edward Thomas & Robert Frost

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/29/robert-frost-edward-thomas-poetry






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