Poem of the week: No Remedy by Drummond Allison | Poetry
No RemedyNo remedy, my retrospective friend,We’ve found no remedy;Nor from these fields the briared and barbed wire endCan keep our enemy,To mend the gapsWould take perhaps a century.So, praise each other’s poem though we may,The day of easy speechSucceeded soon by love and fright, and theyMade madness out of reachGave way in turnTo speed to learn, vain wish to teach,Success and jealousy their unsought sons; That day won’t leap again,As when some amateur card trickster runsHis hands through all the plainCards, stuns the…