SPELL OUT SPECTRE, find out what
it means. What sort of bogeyman
is caught so easily on camera,
visibly shaken, going at the knees?
Declare yourself unspooked, and I'll
believe you; but note takings
are depressed, unseasonably;
the days floodlit, the gloaming fraught
with imprecations as we bump and part.
--
Perhaps (but not likely) I may be still
a whizz at ordinary language and you
mishear things.
-- Geoffrey Hill,
Discourse: For Stanley Rosen
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