Breadcrumb
Thoughts from American: A Poem by Stanley Marcuss (1963)
Published:
10 April 2019
I was at Cambridge
Years ago.
Was cold and damp
Years ago.
A kindling thought in years ago
Romance in mist and thoughts I knew
In cold and damp
I made a fire
Cold and damp
Sparked fearsome flames
Cold and damp
Sparked furnace spires
Cold and damp
Sparked yearning desires
No water could expire.
Peterhouse, a furnace fire
Searing cauldron
Thoughts in burning
Molten ore
Tempered steel
Of rusticated
Rust and polish
Glistening iron
Supporting things and
Things what’s more.
A thought
A frame
In old age
An and or and or and and an
I steal
To make a beam
To hold the frame of future
To make what’s more of more
Of cold and damp in Peter’s House.
Stan