that, in this narrative, serves to settle the poet's turmoil: it is not the "dark tower" of romantic quest or challenge but a solid presence, a marker of a boundary safely crossed, more trustworthy than the later pink glow of "sunlight from no sure source."
[by Roy Fisher]
The Running Changes
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week
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