Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
Country House Weekendtc "Country House Weekend"
From the train:
lush meadows of green
wormed with slow brown trout-streams
willow and alder carr-shaded
pollards standard, a stag-headed oak,
a hump-ed cart-bridge
and a forgotten novel.
On arrival:
bags piling up in the hallway
waxed floors’
reek mingling
fresh-gathered jonquil bouquet
a demure capped maid
and to the distant clicking of billiards
the passing of a furtive note.
After dinner:
a drink on the lichened stone terrace
rabbits white-scudding away in the gloom
round an old yew-bush half-toppled
shock of stumbling on a tangled pair
by the lake, a flash of thigh
milk-white under the moon
Whispering later, Over cigarettes
in flushed complicity.
Sunday morning:
church missed, coffee lazily taken
an invitation to walk four miles
for a field of fritillaries
to make a decorous foursome, and mask
a breach of the 7th commandment.
Then a rain-shower, hurrying ,
a hasty tea, arrangements, apologies,
and the London train again.