Make that two wickets for Imlah
What's up with Mick over at the TLS? Is it just me or has his form improved of late? After Paul Farley's amazing (if horrendous) Tramp on Fire, this week he's got 'The Arrow' by Erica Wagner (whois?)...
This is an old miracle.
No one really remembers now
if it was by fire, by water, by wire:
if it was a footprint in the snow.
The lost gift echoes in their open beaks,
curls around their coiled metal tongues.
(that half of it, and the rest is equally persuasive).
Then there's a short Michael Hofmann which is in poetry rather than in clever journalese:
Motet
It's naphtha now your gone
a sudden apprehesion of squalor
the unflowering cardamon plant
gummy with syrup and flies
This is an old miracle.
No one really remembers now
if it was by fire, by water, by wire:
if it was a footprint in the snow.
The lost gift echoes in their open beaks,
curls around their coiled metal tongues.
(that half of it, and the rest is equally persuasive).
Then there's a short Michael Hofmann which is in poetry rather than in clever journalese:
Motet
It's naphtha now your gone
a sudden apprehesion of squalor
the unflowering cardamon plant
gummy with syrup and flies
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