Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Leontia Flynn, Profit and Loss


'The Spirit's hardly wearing thin
so much as changing shape'
('Letter to Friends')

'[...] magpies
are untranscendent and corporeal;
they are grounded. They are guardians. They keep guarded
the black and white beneath the feathers' gloss.'
('Magpies')

Leontia Flynn, Profit and Loss (London: Cape, 2011), 42; 58.