Glass Wings

ups and downs, through half a century,
could be described as aeronautical:
though you’re the qualified pilot, I’m the one
who, far too often, flew away from you.

It seems too late for an apology;

how can you relate to a creature that
doesn’t even have a proper plural?

better to pretend you haven’t noticed.

She emigrated to Britain in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979.

In 1977-78 she was writer-in-residence at Charlotte Mason College of Education, Ambleside

in 1979-81, living in Newcastle, becoming a freelance writer after her return to London. She received an OBE in 1996, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000).

as well as her translations of medieval Latin lyrics,

. She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow

The vicar dutifully wrote it up.