Dawn Gorman and Peter O'Grady co-host an enjoyable monthly, hour-long program on West Wilts Radio (UK) called "The Poetry Place." November 2023's program features poets Vic Pickup and Rachel Clyne. Several other poets join in the fun to read a poem or two. Larew presents his poem, If Briefly, at minute 44.
Here's the link to the recorded broadcast -- The Poetry Place – West Wilts Radio
And, here's the poem which first appeared in Fevers of the Mind.
IF BRIEFLY
I’ve never wanted anything so much
as roads to meander --
Gravel the better and dusty through
some wandering summers
Or weedy musk-melons like childhood
gone off on a ramble
I’ve never wanted anything as much
as that kind of lost
And how I love to visit door-to-door
the memories made of privet and rabbits
or fences
if even briefly
No I’ve really never wanted anything as much as
porch rugs
and how small bare feet traveled on them
to welcoming shores of seem
So please in any reckoning
may I get at least one wish
that I’ve asked for --
To become a row of praying mailboxes
with weeds all around
Or wherever I go
to envy how whooping grasshoppers
leave me behind
