- The Observer,
- Sunday May 18 2008
(from Yellow Studio)
The removal of the honeycomb
or the hornet's nest
layer by layer
is not what I thought, I did not say
this is my store, my sweetness,
my distillate, I did not feel
that here, at least,
I am lord of all I survey
but noted rather, dismayingly,
how many had lain unread
like this Modern Turkish Poetry
or this un-put-down-able Life of Tolstoy,
and how even the lovely foxed familiars
retired behind their covers
as if I had to begin again
and come upon them as a stranger.
