Often confiding

From the archive of The Strange Years of My Life
 

 

Entry for the House Wren (Troglodytes aedon), pp. 352-353 in A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (rev. ed., 1980), by Richard ffrench; a prized book in my library, given me as a Christmas present by my parents c. 1985.

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The virgin’s shawls and cloths

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Postcard depicting the Wilton Diptych. Bought at the National Gallery, London, June 2015.

Read my poem “Deux Lapins” here. See more of the archive of The Strange Years of My Life here.