A grief ago*
A grief ago
the fire burned itself out
where this small dog now
dares to paw the ashes.
I shall not shout
at one too meagre
to tempt my
injustices.
In the Manner of Walter Savage Landor.
O prosper not the past
that we may eat upon
a harvest lost, laid waste
by our own carrion.**
*A coherent line from a word-salad-poem by Dylan Thomas.
** A reference to overpopulated London and the Thames, polluted since the early 19th Century.
The prince destined to be King Henry IX died, aged 18, from typhoid fever from a swim in the Thames
near Richmond in October 1612.
** A reference to overpopulated London and the Thames, polluted since the early 19th Century.
The prince destined to be King Henry IX died, aged 18, from typhoid fever from a swim in the Thames
near Richmond in October 1612.
