Contemporary English and Irish Poetry
Summer 1981
The Celebrants
1 Remember Melusine morose specter, whose own superstition once made a serpent of her: she was betwitched into a myth by chance out of her housekeeping because she was credulous, and so […]
Contemporary English and Irish Poetry
Summer 1981
Our Vegetable Love Shall Grow
Shaking in white streetlight in a cold night wind, two luminous blue fangs push through the grass at the bus shelter: an early crocus, drawing color from some hidden underfoot […]
Contemporary English and Irish Poetry
Summer 1981
From “Ten Poems from a City Calendar”
In the true weather of their art these silver streets bustle, skin lit towers: we break some magic barrier into the daylight of the Duc de Berry’s golden hours and […]
Contemporary English and Irish Poetry
Summer 1981
Coastline
This is the landscape of the Cambrian age: shale, blue quartz, planes of slate streaked with iron and lead; soapstone, spars of calcite; in these pools, fish are the color […]
Contemporary English and Irish Poetry
Summer 1981
At Seven a Son
In cold weather on a garden swing, his legs in wellingtons rising over the winter rose trees he sits serenely smiling like a Thai his coat open, his gloves sewn […]