Pieces of Light by Adam Thorpe

Author:Adam Thorpe [Adam Thorpe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

Quite warm. Lawn being mown.

Dear Mother,

It’s not easy to write to you about certain things, but I must.

The beechwood wouldn’t do. As soon as we plunged in, I realised this. It was full of faces. They had watched me perform my plays and one couldn’t blame them for being intrigued. Their Elizabethan ruffs and hoods and hats poked out from every root and bole and branch. Fairies flitted here and there, not all of them good. Lost princes and melancholy clowns, too. I had peopled this wood so many times, to keep myself company. A goodly company! Henry IRVING was strolling about, keeping an eye. And William SHAKESPEARE himself was leaning against a tree, chewing on a goose-quill. You see my problem, Mother. No theatre is ever really empty. No isle is ever quite silent.

So I aimed for the wildwood, Rachael dragging on my hand. ‘It’s all right! It’s all right!’ I hissed. Perhaps we would have seemed very intent to anyone looking on – to Nuncle, for instance, as we flitted over the wedge of the lawn separating one wood from the other. I don’t know, I can’t remember how we arrived, only arriving, plunging into the deeps. Clambering over the chicken-wire and plunging into the deeps.

It was so quiet, so shadowy, so safely tangled. Such a safe spot for shy lovers. And then the poem goes on:

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