This poem is taken from PN Review 227, Volume 42 Number 3, January - February 2016.
‘Again at St Juliot’ and other poems
Again at St Juliot
Entreaty of underbrush
hauls down its prize,
thrashing yellow spasm
felt as voluntary
while the sun in fiercest gall
sucks out airy
curls from the last lockets –
audibly they crackle,
blazing as a whirlwind
fans images
then withdraws –
shakes rosaries of live heads
ratcheting through air, air
that is slim mire,
mire felt colossal
in evacuated cobalt shadows.
...
Entreaty of underbrush
hauls down its prize,
thrashing yellow spasm
felt as voluntary
while the sun in fiercest gall
sucks out airy
curls from the last lockets –
audibly they crackle,
blazing as a whirlwind
fans images
then withdraws –
shakes rosaries of live heads
ratcheting through air, air
that is slim mire,
mire felt colossal
in evacuated cobalt shadows.
...
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