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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SWAMP TRAGEDY, by I. V.
First Line: In andrus swamp, out hastings way
Last Line: Laugh if you will -- not I!
Subject(s): Hastings, England; Swamps; Tragedy; Bogs; Fens; Marshes
First Line: In andrus swamp, out hastings way
Last Line: Laugh if you will -- not I!
Subject(s): Hastings, England; Swamps; Tragedy; Bogs; Fens; Marshes
In Andrus swamp, out Hastings way,
A black stump's crumbly loam
Shows little, crisscross tunnelings
And a nesty, field-mouse home.
The cellar is a hoof-print, deep
Enough for harvesting
A pint of wild cucumber roots
Against the dearth of spring.
Spring's here, their store gleams white, untouched,
And near, owl pellets lie
With bits of field-mouse fur and bones. . . .
Laugh if you will -- not I!
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