Quite a heroic poem, Cameron, or a post-heroic poem: for only from the the old beaten down barn-of-a-man can there arise the name that endures beyond facile identity, the "aloneness that reigns after rain." And it was a good move to simply use the word king rather than King Lear which collects echoes more mythic (though the scholarly echoes are included in its reverberation). The poem is remarkable, and it evokes its dedicatee in a suitably translucent way, by looking through him. Weathered things, weathered beings, have a grave translucence that calls into question all that presumes to be concrete.
Nemo
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