Great Regulars: Here, too, although the syntax

suggests otherwise, all that really goes "on and on for ever" is Nature's indifference and attrition. Perhaps, beneath the haunting, humanised call of the curlew, we can hear a much more chilly, existential cry.

[by Alan Jenkins]

A Late Lunch
(In mem. A. R., 1941--2003)

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: A Late Lunch by Alan Jenkins

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