Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Great Regulars: This may be an elegy for a time

"when there were still enormous elms", but only the first stanza is caught in the past: the second floats free of tense, a fleeting, thistledown moment perhaps, but one that catches at the imagination and puts down roots in the fertile heart.

[by David Constantine]

Elm Seeds

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Elm Seeds

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