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International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 33, Number 3, pp. 468
IJE vol.33 no.3 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

Diversion

Future Work

Fleur Adcock

‘Please send future work’

– EDITOR'S NOTE ON A REJECTION SLIP

It is going to be a splendid summer.

The apple tree will be thick with golden russets

expanding weightily in the soft air.

I shall finish the brick wall beside the terrace

and plant out all the geranium cuttings.

Pinks and carnations will be everywhere.

She will come out to me in the garden,

her bare feet pale on the cut grass,

bringing jasmine tea and strawberries on a tray.

I shall be correcting proofs of my novel

(third in a trilogy—simultaneous publication

in four continents); and my latest play

will be in production at the Aldwych

starring Glenda Jackson and Paul Scofield

with Olivier brilliant in a minor part.

I shall probably have finished my translations

of Persian creation myths and the Pre-Socratics

(drawing new parallels) and be ready to start

on Lucretius. But first I'll take a break

at the chess championships in Manila—

on present form, I'm fairly likely to win.

And poems? Yes, there will certainly be poems:

they sing in my head, they tingle along my nerves.

It is all magnificently about to begin.

From POEMS, 1960–2000, by Fleur Adcock, published by Bloodaxe Books, 2000.

Reprinted with permission.


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