The Shepherdess' Dress - a new poem
Videos on Youtube, TED talks in fact, telling me to write, the power of writing, extreme writing, daily writing, nothing: and my resitance to this, my feeling of distrust: that passerine singing outside, the morning rooftops in the blue sky: doubt overflows me, I don't trust Wordsworth, his poetic opus, forever a prelude to what? I question punctuation, blank verse, and Sir Francis Bacon: is writing just another kind of compliance? Philomenia draws inspiration from the flowers the maid had set on the table, in watercolours paints a still-life that Papa will later frame; she gazes out into…