!DOCTYPE html> html> head lang=”en-US”> title>Earthfast by A. S. J. Tessimond/title> /div> h1 class=”pageTitle”>Earthfast/h1> div class=”entry-content clearfix”> h2 class=”author”>by A. S. J. Tessimond/h2> div id=”content”> p>Architects plant their imagination, weld their poems on rock,br /> Clamp them to the skidding rim of the world and anchor them down to its core;br /> Leave more than the painter’s or poet’s snail-bright trail on a friable leaf;br /> Can build their chrysalis round them; stand in their sculpture’s belly./p> p>They see through stone, they cage and partition air, they cross-rig spacebr /> With footholds, planks for a dance; yet their maze, their flying trapezebr /> Is pinned to the centre. They write their euclidean music standingbr /> With a hand on a cornice of cloud, themselves set fast, earth-square./p>/div> p>br /> br> /body> /html>
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (1902 -1962) was an English poet. He had a tumultuous childhood, ran from boarding school, went to work, somehow attended the University of Liverpool, avoided service in WWI and then discovered that he is unfit for military service after he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which in those days was known as manic depression. A.S. Tessimond is a wonderful poet though maybe somewhat underappreciated poet. He died from in 1962 from a brain haemorrhage.