Comments on: “Here” here (Larkin) http://www.spikemagazine.com/splinters/2009/02/here-here-larkin.php The SpikeMagazine.com Blog Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Granger http://www.spikemagazine.com/splinters/2009/02/here-here-larkin.php#comment-110043 Ben Granger Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:41:27 +0000 http://www.spikemagazine.com/splinters/?p=2408#comment-110043 I realise now of course, that a far, far better title for this post would have been 'Hear "Here"'. Or perhaps 'Hear "Here" Here." But then "Watching the shied core Striking the basket, skidding across the floor, Shows less and less of luck, and more and more Of failure spreading back up the arm Earlier and earlier, the unraised hand calm, The apple unbitten in the palm. " I realise now of course, that a far, far better title for this post would have been ‘Hear “Here”‘. Or perhaps ‘Hear “Here” Here.”

But then

“Watching the shied core
Striking the basket, skidding across the floor,
Shows less and less of luck, and more and more

Of failure spreading back up the arm
Earlier and earlier, the unraised hand calm,
The apple unbitten in the palm. “

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