in the drama: it's everywhere, even whining inside a previous gate's hollow metal bars, and there is no consoling abatement. The byre "like a rotten walnut" is, perhaps, meant to show us what wind and weather ultimately do with human strategies for survival--whether that strategy is a cowshed or a dictionary. If the poem has a subtext about the diminution of a language, its enjoyment of dialect words suggests how the stubborn seeds of words may travel, and germinate far from home.[by by Jen Hadfield]
Hüm (noun)
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Hüm (noun) by Jen Hadfield
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