‘Macarus’

Study for the poem ‘Smallpox Epidemic 1727-29′

 

‘Not so his father, his feathers 

damped and soaked by rain-clouds

became a shroud that downed him

till he was toppled from his heights

and found drowned 

within the sea’s depths’

 

(extract)

 

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