Prospect

"Channel Crossing"

Prospect written by Sylvia Plath

"The Queen's Complaint"

Poem composed in 1956, entry 8 in The Collected Poems, edited by Ted Hughes

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Prospect Among orange-tile rooftops and chimney pots the fen fog slips, gray as rats, while on spotted branch of the sycamore two black rooks hunch and darkly glare, watching for night, with absinthe eye cocked on the lone, late, passer-by. 1956