Great Regulars: So, do they represent Everyman,

these helpless passengers in time, stowaways of planet earth? I like that idea, but I like even better the idea of personification. The stowaways, then, would represent the poems or paintings we often fail to complete, or the ambitions which, once fulfilled, defy all our expectations. In the end, "Stowaways" may not be so much about the stowaways themselves, as our responsibility for them--whoever, whatever, they may be.

[by Lawrence Sail]

Stowaways

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: towaways by Lawrence Sail

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