The Weather Wheel by Mimi Khalvati

Author:Mimi Khalvati [Mimi Khalvati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847774842
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2014-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

I feel sorry for my smallness, short trunk, short legs,

sleeves rolled up, feet too large to be in proportion.

When I sit and plant them squarely, side by side like shoes

with no one in them, I feel how flat they are and firm.

If I were a pot, a round ceramic pot with a mustard glaze

on a whatnot in the guest room or on an outside table,

I’d be, like H.D.’s Delphic charioteer whose feet made

‘a firm pedestal for himself’, I’d be always balanced.

Reading the Saturday Guardian

A yellow ladybird is reading the Guardian Weekend,

alternately reading and grooming, rubbing her hands,

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