it carries us to a further memory, the ceremonious offering of flowers to another queenly "whitehaired woman", the "yellow coltsfoot" of stanza one now transmuted by the child's vision to gold. This final picturing truly earns the word, "epiphany"."Frieze" is from David Constantine's new collection Nine Fathom Deep (Bloodaxe, 2009), and is reprinted here by kind permission of the publisher and the author.
Frieze by David Constantine
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Frieze by David Constantine
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