1554: September Song | Geoffrey Hill
"September Song"
Geoffrey Hill
Undesirable you may have been, untouchable
you were not. Not forgotten
or passed over at the proper time.
As estimated, you died. Things marched,
sufficient, to that end.
Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
terror, so many routine cries.
(I have made
an elegy for myself it
is true)
September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the wall. The smoke
of harmless fires drifts to my eyes.
This is plenty. This is more than enough.
On this day in...
2011: "Time and Again" by Rainer Maria Rilke
2010: "Crow, Scarecrow" by Leonard Gontarek
2009: "Winnie-the-Pooh: On Parting" by A.A. Milne
2008: "Birches" by Robert Frost and "Death in the Meadow" by Leslye Layne Russell
2007: "We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye" by Anna Akhmatova
Outside in the graveyard we sit on a frozen branch.
Geoffrey Hill
Undesirable you may have been, untouchable
you were not. Not forgotten
or passed over at the proper time.
As estimated, you died. Things marched,
sufficient, to that end.
Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
terror, so many routine cries.
(I have made
an elegy for myself it
is true)
September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the wall. The smoke
of harmless fires drifts to my eyes.
This is plenty. This is more than enough.
On this day in...
2011: "Time and Again" by Rainer Maria Rilke
2010: "Crow, Scarecrow" by Leonard Gontarek
2009: "Winnie-the-Pooh: On Parting" by A.A. Milne
2008: "Birches" by Robert Frost and "Death in the Meadow" by Leslye Layne Russell
2007: "We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye" by Anna Akhmatova
Outside in the graveyard we sit on a frozen branch.