Saturday, August 16, 2014

Penelope Shuttle

We have to highlight Penelope Shuttle's great piece in TheWolf, from issue 17, July 2004 called "There". It has a really fresh take on modern ideas, a type of crystalline post-modern style that is very appealing. I am the last person to accept anything after 1930 poetry-wise, but this is great. Here's an excerpt from the end:


[...]


The trees stowed away their leaves
Like a seraph, the willow lingered
I was there
like September in the north,
like a keepsake of the sun
I was there forever.

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