England's Green by Zaffar Kunial

Author:Zaffar Kunial
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

There was an Old Lady whose folly

Induced her to sit in a holly

– edward lear

An impulse in the night snow

draws her like a nail to the evergreen oak –

the armoured, angular holly –

to lean back

against its medieval gravity –

tight weaponry that might have been

time’s own prickling fabric – now

the holly spikes

take the weight of her coat, her dress, her body

and, yes, soul – a thousand pins she can sense

sharp and yet benign, shielded as she’s borne

for a beautiful clock-

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