Today’s Poem: February Afternoon

Edward Thomas and the failure of memory's consolation

Starlings on a late-winter sky (via craiyon.com)

We might consider Edward Thomas (1878–1917), like Chidiock Tichborne, to be a tragic one-hit wonder. Unlike Tichborne, Thomas wrote more than one poem. But poetry was, for him, a late-life development after a career as a literary critic, and his output remained relatively small. In his case, “late-life” me…