Sixty
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Here is an enigmatic beauty from Ms Dickinson of Amherst, to which I must resist the temptation to try to add much (as before 1181 is in the 1955 Johnson numbering).
1181
When I hoped I feared -
Since I hoped I dared
Everywhere alone
As a Church remain -
Spectre cannot harm -
Serpent cannot charm -
He deposes Doom
Who hath suffered him -
I love the double meaning in line two; that daring followed from hoping, or that we might have gone looking for some daring and hoped to find it.
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For those who are interested print and eBook copies of my first collection are now available under the title ‘51 Poems’. Print at Booktopia and Amazon, or eBook on Apple Books. There are eBook versions on the Booktopia and Amazon pages as well, whichever may suit you. You can also read the complete (and favourable) review of this book on independent book review!
I also do photography here if you like a bit more colour.
Here is the link to my recently released novella Wondering, which will be in a hardcover edition to begin with.
Or if you what are you dying for is purple buttons, here they are: