25 January 2024, The Tablet

The Tablet Poem – Winter Sutra by John Burnside

by John Burnside

The Tablet Poem – Winter Sutra by John Burnside

New rain in the winter trees.
Photo by Ruth Gledhill

 

What I miss about the old house is the way

we lived alone on certain afternoons,

 

in spite of memory

and common prayer;

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