Today’s Poem: Early in the Morning

Spots of Time in a poem by Robert Hillyer

Konstantin Korovin, Café de la Paix à Paris, c. 1925 (Wikimedia Commons)

Over the past two years, my fellow Poems Ancient and Modern founder Sally Thomas and I have been in conversation about what I dubbed “Spots of Time poetry.” What started us off was Edward Thomas’s “Adlestrop,” as we tried to identify what made the poem so memorable, but our intermi…