POETIC JUSTICE

A wishful thinking editor changed
a poem’s final words from ‘a tramp woman
nurses an infant/under a tumbling sky’
to ‘under a trembling sky’. Humbling to find
an editor’s chance choice of epithet –
she had spelt my surname with a ‘t’ –
happier than my own! Mine was truer.

 

Note: Here is the poem referred to above – https://www.davidselzer.com/2012/04/dedham-vale-revisited-2/

 

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