The Fool and the Bee by Martin Corless-Smith Poetry Mercy Ward

Mercy Ward

Peter Porter

Regine marries and Kierkegaard is forced to acknowledge that his choice is irreversible

a book about enthusiasm and illusion

ruthlessly and meticulously: “the leaves were turning/ and the trees were lifted from their drab

The Fool and the Bee by Martin Corless-Smith Poetry Mercy Ward"A masque: it's all a mask, celebrating the "organic" . . . British nature (transplants to US), in layers of spring and subsequent decay, within a long cultural history and a (to middle age) lifespan, personal pain, modernization, human war, gods and goddesses speaking anywhere. The poem has an enormous and muscular musicality (including prose musicality); the Poet constantly wondering how to Bee, how a Fool can Bee (symbol of all good qualities,