for Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
The echoes of a gift thought lost
haunt the approach of age
as a forgotten page ensures
a waste of waking hour.
Sometimes plenitude, however,
roots recurrent pain
like a winter shower
and therefrom springs again
a hidden phrase from soil
long parched, a sudden
rhythm out of season,
which springs from trodden grass
like a moment of invention
at a chink upon a glass.
©Terry Hodgson2023
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