November 4th Fiona Benson
Wednesday November 4th
Tonight I reread some of Fiona Benson's Faber New Poets pamphlet.
Fiona was the first Faber New Poet.
I love Caveat and read it in a workshop yesterday.
Tonight I reread some of Fiona Benson's Faber New Poets pamphlet.
Fiona was the first Faber New Poet.
I love Caveat and read it in a workshop yesterday.
Caveat
But consider the cactus:
its thick hide
and parched aspect
still harbour a moist
heart;
nick its rind and sap
wells up like sugared
milk
from the store of water
held beneath its spines,
its armoury of barbs
and, once in a lifetime,
when the hard rains fall
there is this halo of
flowers.