Poem
Stephen Romer
Abruptly a wing . . .
Abruptly a wing . . .
Abruptly a wing . . .
Abruptly a wing may openand come beating
out of the cloudbank
and then a whole
freewheeling company
as if the cloud had stored them
in a long embalming
of ashlight and cumulus:
strangely disinterred
they swoop upriver
in a sequence
of achieved articulations.
© 1998, Stephen Romer
From: Tribute
Publisher: Oxford/Carcanet, Oxford/Manchester
From: Tribute
Publisher: Oxford/Carcanet, Oxford/Manchester
Stephen Romer
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1957)
Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957; he has lived in France since 1981. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is now Maître de Conférence at Tours University, France, in the English department. Romer has been Visiting Professor of French at Colgate University, New York, three times. He regularly reviews French poetry and literature for the Guardian and the Times Literary Su...
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Abruptly a wing . . .
Abruptly a wing may openand come beating
out of the cloudbank
and then a whole
freewheeling company
as if the cloud had stored them
in a long embalming
of ashlight and cumulus:
strangely disinterred
they swoop upriver
in a sequence
of achieved articulations.
From: Tribute
Abruptly a wing . . .
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