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2 – A small wading poultry, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina I see it truly, as if I’d identified it myself, the fast glance of Jane within the poem through Roethke – that tender elegy, for a scholar of his thrown from a horse. My favorite line used to be consistently her sidelong pickerel smile. It flashes throughout her face and my mind’s present, that smile, as brilliant and quickly and shy because the silvery juvenile fish – glimpsed, it vanishes, fast into murk and swaying weeds – a kink of eco-friendly and bubbles all that’s left at the back of. i used to be definite of this – the useless girl’s vividness – her smile unseated, as by means of a stumbling stride – until one wet Cambridge night, my umbrella bucking, I headed towards Magdalene to fulfill an outdated pal. We ducked below The Pickerel’s painted signal, its coiled fish tilting; over a drink our speak fell to Roethke, his pickerel smile, and I had a type of blurrings – glitch, then concentration – like at a put-off optician’s journey, for those who comprehend how lengthy you’ve been seeing issues wrongly. I’d by no means spotted: in each stanza after the 1st, Jane is a poultry: wren or sparrow, skittery pigeon. the inaccurate type of pickerel! In my head, her smile without notice developed: now the stretched beak of a wading chook – a stint or purre – swung into profile. I observed anew the diffident stilts of the woman, her casting head, her gangly virtually grace, puttering away throughout a tarnished reflect of estuary dust. In Homer, the Sirens are winged creatures: the Muses clipped them for his or her failure. through the Renaissance, their feathers have switched for a mermaid’s scaly tail. within the logo by way of Alciato (printed Padua, 1618) the woodcut photos a couple of chicken-footed maids, promising mantric truths to a Ulysses slack at his mast. however the subscriptio denounces girls, contra naturam, plied with hind- components of fish: for lust brings with it many monsters. Or take how Horace starts the Ars Poetica, ticking off poets who dare an excessive amount of: mating savage with tame, or snakes with birds, can in basic terms create such horrors, he says, as a comely waist that lands up in a black and hideous fish. The pickerel-girl swims via my mind’s eye’s flummery like a video game of views, a corrugated photo: fish a technique poultry the opposite. might or not it's that Roethke intended the word’s unusual doubleness? Neither father nor lover. A teach watches a woman click-to the door of his examine with reverent care, one iciness night – and is aware Horace on reining in fable. (f) fantastic Chimera, chimera – the place does your backyard develop? A grafted Paradise. A mouthful of snow. A Trojan notion – maculate shipment. A spliced mouse – its unearthly day-glo. Pythagoras’s Curtain Nightly trapped within the approximately invisible candy hibiscus, cicadas in some way by no means noticeable cadenza the acousmatic nightfall. hid strings, their chitinous glissandi, fan the flames of each treeless hole. Iambs crisped, adrift from resource – the chanting of a misplaced Pythagoras. in the back of a curtain’s lamp-cast colour, he could ravel out his doctrines whereas the bunched scholars strained to seize the drone of that Ionian ounces, revealing issues past their eyes: how numbers hum, and the planets are tuned to a blacksmith’s blows in unheard chords; how our spirits will wrench loose on the root, and but these stressed souls needs to flit from thief, to thinker, to plangent cricket; how he himself recalled 4 lives and one evening heard a useless buddy cry from the throat of a Molossian hound.