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 Geoffrey Hill is the author of three books of criticism and ten books of poetry. He currently lives and teaches in Massachusetts where he is Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University. He wishes to point out that the italicized line in “After Reading Children of Albion (1969)” is from “Bathampton Morrismen at the Rose & Crown,” by John James. Email a friend >> Printable version >> |
On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
Whether or not shadows are of the substance
such is the expectation I can
wait to surprise my vision as a wind
enters the valley: sudden and silent
in its arrival, drawing to full cry
the whorled invisibilities, glassen towers
freighted with sky-chaff; that, as barnstorming
powers, rammack the small
orchard; that well-steaded oaks
ride stolidly, that rake the light-leafed ash,
that glowing yew trees, cumbrous, heave aside.
Amidst and abroad tumultuous lumina,
regents, reagents, cloud-fêted, sun-ordained,
fly tally over hedgerows, across fields. |
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