Another poem in this work describes "milk in a bottle, corked sloppily with paper" and describes "the cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and the slap of soggy peat."
One speaker in this collection recalls its addressee "dragging out long roots from the soft mulch," and rhymes "to see" himself, "to set the darkness echoing." Another poem in this work describes "milk in a bottle, corked sloppily with paper" and describes "the cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and the slap of soggy peat." The title poem compares a slap and plop to "obscene threats" and describes creatures "poised like mud grenades." Those creatures are (*) frogs that are "great slime kings" whose encounter with the narrator leads the speaker to undergo the title transformation. Also including a poem that ends "Between my finger and thumb the squat pen rests" it was the first collection of the author of District and Circle. Including "Personal Helicon" and "Mid-Term Break," for 10 points, name this poetry collection that includes "Digging" written by Seamus Heaney. [Ike]
One speaker in this collection recalls its addressee "dragging out long roots from the soft mulch," and rhymes "to see" himself, "to set the darkness echoing.
{Death} of a {Naturalist}