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Dear Norah, The poem was inspired by one of my two favourite poems, Anabasis, by the French Nobel Prize winning Poet, St Jean Perse, The poem which is the length of a small book is packed with this feeling for immediate things. i must have read this poem at least a thousand times (I'm not kidding you) but it never loses its freshness. If there's a better poem written since Eliot's East Coker I'd love to read it. Amazingly Perse is not represented on Poem Hunter! This may be because most of his work consists of very long poems. I have tried to redress the balance by submitting a translation of one of his earlier poems Eloge which reminds me of my state when I get up in the morning (i.e. a complete mess) . I must press on reading your poems. I think there's about 35? Many regards Tom Billsborough