#forgotten ground regained

[thaliarchus]

I have a new (short) poem out in FGR

Here it is.

Unexpectedly—I didn't know this in advance!—[link opens PDF] one of the essays in this issue also discusses the poem for its punctilious metrical and alliterative archaism.

I archaised carefully because the contrast was funny. But not wholly funny ('Sink not to laughter'): things like the echo of the Dream of the Rood ('all quail answering') aren't there by accident. The sentiment's probably trite, but I increasingly think that most things worth saying are on some level trite. Much is in the manner, not the matter.

('Okay but Thal, is the poem gay' Yes but very quietly: 'bucks' is plural.)