[This tab gives the poem as it was published in the 2014 collection / Terror, the other as it first appeared in the 2009 pamphlet Faber / New Poets 2. To compare them, click the double-arrowed button.] / / / / As snow falls, as the first snow of this year falls & falls / beyond all light &...

Landscape bares itself like the totality / of hís love as the evangelists conceived it – / an olive tree twists in its private dusk / then stands an awful second / as the brief bars of light go scurrying by. / So smooth, so smooth in its carriage / the train hisses, suave gesture of contempt ...