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GEORGE
MACKAY BROWN
A Work for Poets
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have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A ship A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read That not far from the stone A well Might open for wayfarers Here is a work for poets - Carve the runes Then be content with silence. © GMB 1996 |
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His sense of the world and his way with words are powerfully at one with each other. His vision has something of the skaldic poet's consciousness of inevitable ordeal, something of the haiku master's susceptibility to the delicate and momentary .... Seamus Heaney |
