OUR LITERARY HISTORY

OUR LITERARY HISTORY

scruffy rebel poets
Knights of the Realm
sometimes those
strangest of
hybrids that fall
into both categories

and there
in the schools
and universities
an industry at work

creating a mosaic
building a pantheon

that Shakespeare, whoever
he is, whomsoever
he was

can float high above everything
in great
volumes of cloud

Hamlet teasing the Danish
first minister to fix
upon absolutes where
all is
shifting significance