
A Journal of High Culture
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Cosmos by Daniel Leach
I In fields of dark we lay that moonless night,And watched a million unknown stars appear,And in our spirit’s dreamy outward flight,Forgot all but each other, breathing near—The sound of our voices was like a streamOn which we sailed up through the atmosphere,To that vast sea where countless beauties gleam,And we no longer see…
Clayre by Kevin Roberts
Shades that deck the dusky sky,That changes hueWith every breeze that billows by,Change less than you.Its colors ever-changing;Its tides so vastly ranging,And still they change far less than Clayre should do.It’s me alone she loves by night,But then by day,When lovers lure her supple sight,She’s borne away.Her straying glance can gash apartThe chambers of my…
Daniel by Roland Hughes
She had been carefulnot to allow polishto seep through the cracked glass.A young man;difficult to judge his agethrough the blur of camera shake.A moment of laughter,taken from the hip with a box-brownie.Out of place amongst studio posesof aunts, unclesand The Reverend J Lewis.I, unaware of her thoughts,sip tea from a china cup.I had known her…
