Tagged: “winter”
Poem of the Week: “Border Lake” by John Montague
The farther North you travel, the colder it gets.
Take that border county of which no one speaks.
Look at the straggly length of its capital town:
the bleakness after a fair, cattle beaten home.
Poem of the Week: “Winter Beachhead” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
This is the starkest hour of the shore
when it’s purged and cleansed as a Sabbath door.
There’s a brim of lather when the tide’s in
as the waves go on with their day’s washing.
Poem of the Week: “The Ice Wager” by Harry Clifton
Snowscape. Shod in tailor’s irons,
Red-hot, with my poundage of weights,
I test the ice of our latest year.