Robin writes:
> And elsewhere and in another context, david b. invoked the name of
> W.S.Graham. Again a lyric to philosophic shift -- _Nightfishing_ to
> _Malcolm Mooney's Land_ and _The Instruments in Their Places_?
It's not quite as neat as that, I think. _The Nightfishing_ is a
philosophical poem in the sense that it shows an obsession with Heraclitean
flux:
I bent to the lamp. I cupped
My hand to the glass chimney.
Yet it was a stranger's breath
From out of my mouth that
Shed the light.
Best wishes
Matthew
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