Occasions of justified anger!
Who could buff me like you
Who wanted the soul to ring true
And plain as a galvanised bucket
And would kick it to test it?
Or whack it clean like a carpet.
So of course when you turned on yourself
You were ferocious.
Seamus Heaney
Two Quick Notes [i]
The Haw Lantern
The Noonday Press
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1987©
Paolo Anchisi
"Field Work" is a favorite book of poems.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're certainly entitled to say so! If there is a poetic conscience vaguely cognisant of what's scribbled here, it is certainly you; and to think, you come, replete, with the gods' own pizza!
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Thank you for your visit. Today's postings form an obvious diptych, and are a lot of heavy going for the good nature of one's visitors. You have always been there, Bruce.