"(A slight miracle might cleanse / His brain / Of all attachments, claw-roots of sense)"
— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)
Author
Work Title
Date
1959
Metaphor
"(A slight miracle might cleanse / His brain / Of all attachments, claw-roots of sense)"
Metaphor in Context
As yet unsearched, unscratched,
And suffered to remain
At such near distance
(A slight miracle might cleanse
His brain
Of all attachments, claw-roots of sense)
In unaccountable darkness moved away,
The strange flesh untouched, carrion-sustenance
Of staunchest love, choicest defiance,
Creation's issue congealing (and one woman's). (p. 27, ll. 10-19)
And suffered to remain
At such near distance
(A slight miracle might cleanse
His brain
Of all attachments, claw-roots of sense)
In unaccountable darkness moved away,
The strange flesh untouched, carrion-sustenance
Of staunchest love, choicest defiance,
Creation's issue congealing (and one woman's). (p. 27, ll. 10-19)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Hill, Geoffrey. Somewhere is Such a Kingdom: Poems, 1952-1971 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
Date of Entry
11/24/2010
