Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Great Regulars: But the memories preserved by [Eavan] Boland's

"ornament of amber" are tender, not tribal. The seeds and small feathers delicately caught inside its "flawed translucence" remind her "just how much/can be kept safe" rather than how many times old wounds can be reopened.

Amber

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Amber

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