This poem is taken from PN Review 278, Volume 50 Number 6, July - August 2024.
from Kit Smart’s ArkA is for Anchovy
Let David Attenborough rejoice with the Anchovy –
I beheld and lo! a great multitude!
blindsided by youth
you saw the seas glitter
each fish a silver sliver
enough, you thought, for ever
clear-sighted now in age
you hold a blue planet
like a diminishing bait ball
do not let it fall
D is for Dragon-fly
Let David Hockney bless with the Dragon-fly,
who sails over the pond by the wood-side and feedeth on the cressies.
in recognition of secret knowledge shared
let Dürer’s tiny dragonfly take flight
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