This poem is taken from PN Review 171, Volume 33 Number 1, September - October 2006.
Common PrayerWhat is all this juice and all this joy?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Twigs of young willow
sough,
a grave elastic bounce,
in today's long-drawn-out Westerly;
an oceanic roar blowing
since the start of something else, far away,
carrying language you hear
but can't grasp:
struggle and give,
the revelation of scale
as it moves through the local –
wind bobbing the dead grasses of the paddock
a trace
of the global, the rim
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