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T. J. Clark

Eminent art historian and sometimes poet Timothy James Clark was born April 12, 1943, in Bristol, England. He attended the Bristol Grammar School, and graduated from St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1964, and

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by T. J. Clark (b. 1943)

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The sea in the wind in the half-light, clearing its throat of pebbles,

Cloud shadows coming down the mountain with the steady speed

Of a paddle wheel. Light on the foothills already gone,

So that you need not look at the seminary on top

Of the tallest—fat, square, and gray as a helping of lard.

The roar from the beach stops suddenly, as if waves lost their nerve.
One dead branch of olive higher than Tsiknias from where I sit,
Its fingers pressed against the aquarium of the sky.
Then the sudden humanity of a bell

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