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No. 1 Via d'Ingresso - The Schools of Siena - Poem
Literary Review, Wntr, 2002 by Roderick Watson
No. 1 Via d'Ingresso Black swifts pinwheel round the square and fix us to the ground. They never stop weaving their nets in the air. Yet we found them unexpectedly as if parked in corners dead birds neat specialised stiff. We threw those sleek bodies over the wall --where rosemary grows in a sweet haze of turpentine and menthol --where the quick electric lizards meet and the ants sustain their endless chains around the passion flower around our feet.
Roderick Watson is Professor of English Studies and Head of the Department at the University of Stirling and is also Director of the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies. His poetry has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and he has published a book of verse, True History on the Walls. He has published extensively on modern Scottish literature and is editor of the essential anthology, The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English. Watson also has been General Editor of the Canongate Classics series since it was established in 1987.
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