Dancing Backwards (19 page)
Small children like tragedy, They do not mind Lear’s madness, They recognise our maladies In Hamlet’s sadness.
Large states are compassable, Childhood nights prepare us for such pains, It is the matters risible, The small affairs that maim.
The letter unarriving That brings us to our knees, Contains a power harrowing—The stuff of comedies.
H.V. St John
Miss Garnet’s Angel
Instances of the Number 3
Mr Golightly’s Holiday
The Other Side of You
Where Three Roads Meet
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