Before senility by Geoffrey Hill

Poems

December 2007

Before senility

Burke

was right!

dum possum volo

Intermezzo of sorts, something to do with gifts.
In plainer style, or sweeter, some figment
of gratitude and reconciliation
with the near things, with remnancy and love:

to measure the ownerless, worn, eighteenth-
century tombstones realigned like ashlar;
encompass the stark storm-severed head
of a sunflower blazing in mire of hail.

Geoffrey Hill's book of poetry Daybook II: Odi Barbare is forthcoming from Cultag Press.

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