The cover design is a digital artwork design. Although Wordsworth did not compose this poem until he was thirty-two years of age, I wanted to imagine the poet as a man aged twenty in 1790 against the background of Cumbria on the northwest coast of Britain.
A black ominous cloth on a pole
masquerading as civilisation’s ‘new’ standard
the only mark
The Spirit … ponders
Will they EVER learn?
Originally published in Idle Thoughts in 2009 as After Job (pronounced Jobe) and is a take on the Book of Job in the Bible.
Two warring families, each believed they did God's will and, moroever, that they each had God's ear!
When I found Edith's book in the Red Cross, Bath Road, Leckhampton in the Spring I was principally attracted as much by the antique style cover as its subject …
Revised Edition, a permanent Feature, the author’s anchor-point
A view from the lower lawn across the valley to the Copse high on the hill … a magical place - the pond just behind, betwixt me and the upper lawn.
