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Shearsman 56 |
Peter Redgrove
Unity of Volume |
She encloses
a little of the universal space
like a potter
Or a waterlily
that meditates
'It is a long journey
From the mulberry leaf
to the silken gown'
I laughed at the fragment
Of Jupiter’s thunder
lodged in my head striking down,
while she transferred
Zest to all my organs; the rough gold
under her armpits was berserk
creating a large
Movement as of swamps and woods
and faces in the stone,
changed to a region
Where the veil is thin:
'The first church above ground
anywhere in the world';
The glass mountain of the sweat – sleep,
entering into the same mountain;
they had come together
Like two cats lapping
at the same milk.
Copyright © the estate of Peter Redgrove, 2003
| Peter
Redgrove was
born in 1932 and lived in Cornwall from the mid-1960s. One
of the most consistently remarkable English poets of the post-war
period, he was the author of over thirty verse collections
and ten works of fiction, as well as plays and works of non-fiction.
His collections include Selected
Poems (Cape, London, 1999). and From
the Virgil Caverns (Cape,
2002). He died on 16 June 2003. A posthumous collection Sheen (166pp, £10)
appears from Stride in October 2003, and a tribute volume, Full
of Stars Dreaming (54pp, £5.95)
appears from the same publisher in October 2003. Both books
can be ordered, post-free, from the publisher at
11 Sylvan Road, Exeter EX4 6EW. |
