PinnedJohn E MarksGérard Manley Hopkins SJOn this flaming day in June, with such beautiful pagan mountains rising all around, I felt your uncertain presence in this bastion of the…·1 min read·Dec 18, 2022--5--5
PinnedJohn E MarksinThe Lark PublicationWaiting for NovemberHis headstone verses were writ in wine·1 min read·Sep 23, 2021--5--5
PinnedJohn E MarksThe unsaidWind cuts through this January night Slices like a knife through my meagre clothes. Signs on the road hidden by an iron fog The cry of…·1 min read·Feb 7, 2021--8--8
PinnedJohn E MarksJohn Keats 31 October 1795– 23 February 1821Melancholy’s lack of zest written all over his palimpsest: to die at twenty-five to some will hardly seem to have been alive, but for…·1 min read·Apr 19, 2021--2--2
John E Marksi.m. Captain Keith Douglas (1920–1944)In Calvados you have your cross And though you won, you most surely lost. Your sacrifice, at twenty-four, to modern ‘wit’ Is nothing more…·2 min read·6 days ago--1--1
John E MarksOn edgeBlack sun on the run born a mute not too cute on my back, sans coat, sans hat, on my back no fringes of lace around my face I’m intact at…·1 min read·May 31, 2024--1--1
John E MarksSUBLIMITYI can hardly speak but I will try, my brain falls silent, still; it is the dying of the light when a ferment of tenses lead up many blind…·1 min read·May 31, 2024----