My other favorite fall poem. October Dawn By Ted Hughes October is marigold, and yetA glass half full of wine left out To the dark heaven all night, by dawnHas dreamed a premonition Of ice across its eye as ifThe ice-age had begun to heave. The lawn overtrodden and strewnFrom the night before, and the …
Tag: Poetry
Autumn
One of my two favorite fall poems is Roy Campbell’s “Autumn”, written when the poet was living in Provence. Autumnby Roy Campbell (1901-1957) I love to see, when leaves depart,The clear anatomy arrive,Winter, the paragon of art,That kills all forms of life and feelingSave what is pure and will survive. Already now the clanging chainsOf …
THomas Disch: 1940- 2008
The poet, critic, and science fiction writer Thomas Disch died last week, a suicide. He was brilliant, unclassifiable, unemployable, and poor, despite having written some odd best sellers– the quintessential freelancer. He was facing eviction from his last home after the death of his long- time companion, and in bad health. He was still writing …
Two Poems with Hawks in Them
I mean to post more poetry. Two short whole ones here. First, from Colin Simms’ Gyrfalcon Poems, “Hesitates at the Apex” : Hesitates at the apex, hovers wind his acceptanceuntil he topples over the edge of his calculus;stoops as an arrow will fall, the archer lifted to cross,clear, and drop vertical behind their defencesperhaps no …