Pathfinder, a poem by James Womack in The Wolf issue 20

Pathfinder is a poem by James Womack, printed in issue 20 of The Wolf.

It describes a walk that begins in a town on a Sunday afternoon and climbs through trees to the garden of an empty house. Along the way it mentions hotel floors being swept, cactus pears sold on a street corner, sunflowers, snails on aloes, a sycamore seed and a thin river. At the house the speaker passes through vacant rooms and open windows, and the poem closes on a garden of pear trees and herbs grown wild.

Work

Pathfinder

Author

James Womack

Poems in this selection

• Pathfinder