Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock

Author:Fleur Adcock [Fleur Adcock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780370712
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2014-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Dreaming it:

the braids of upside-down-looking

words trailing through his sleep,

tripping him up or winding themselves

into suddenly obvious patterns:

truth leaping out;

no room for argument.

But arguing anyway:

someone, Tyndale or whoever,

may have got it wrong –

just this one term,

perhaps, for a beast or a tree;

an odd verb; a tribal name;

a turn of phrase that needed to be recast.

III

After all, they had chosen him for it:

celeberrimus textuarius –

the lad from a dull yeoman family

in Deeping St James, who went to Cambridge

and grew into a ‘profound linguist’

(as Fuller has it) – rose to his moment.

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