tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post3110605090788486902..comments2023-04-16T15:39:24.835+01:00Comments on Gardening Leave: GraduationJonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-83229481700810990952012-10-25T17:14:12.598+01:002012-10-25T17:14:12.598+01:00Thanks for your poetic comment Tom. 'Tarn'...Thanks for your poetic comment Tom. 'Tarn' is such a beautiful word, thank you.Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-48590020904950366042012-10-25T14:55:08.324+01:002012-10-25T14:55:08.324+01:00A beautiful and shapely poem that creates a rich a...A beautiful and shapely poem that creates a rich and bright carpet of sound and image which is then -- ah time! -- pulled out from under the reader, who is left holding a different sort of thing altogether. <br /><br />Something fished out of a pond or tarn, perhaps, in the sombre light of late autumn.<br /><br />How swiftly the years went by... TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com