Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Great Regulars: [John] Burnside's encounter with field mice

reminds us both of the fragility of the world we share with them and of the insubstantiality of our own lives: barely there--an "odour", "no more/substantial than the wind we listen for"--they brush us with a fear we recognize and "listen for/through talk-shows and the news/beneath the home/we only half possess".

Field Mice

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Field Mice

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