Poor Richard : Leave Report : Arrival


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Poor Richard 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 dear kanga 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Leave Report Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982 Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription All poems © W. H. Oliver	Arrival One after another three gaunt jets climb past my high window. The sky is dull grey; a chestnut beginning to flower dances at their departure. Behind me a lamp glows; a bunch of yellow irises and a handful of apples shine with the summer I make ready to welcome setting out carefully tokens and offerings.