Contributions by David Lehman
The Trip Not Taken
I regret not having taken up the offer of a Cambridge colleague, a pathologist of proven insight and tact, to try LSD under his supervision. Having experienced no such drug, I remain at a loss to imagine, to conceptualise one of the principal agents of ruin and consolation, of…
Dutch Interior, Election Day, Variations on a Theme
Dutch Interior
He liked the late afternoon light as it dimmed
In the living room, and wouldn’t switch on
The electric lights until past eight o’clock.
His wife complained, called him cheerless, but
It wasn’t a case of melancholy;…
January 1
Some people confuse inspiration with lightning
not me I know it comes from the lungs and air
you breathe it in you breathe it out it circulates
it’s the breath of my being the wind across the face
of the waters yes…