Whatever the Weather 
       for Helen Carr

A Work in Progress
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When Helen points out heroes from Troy’s parapet 

we’re transported by words that have weathered 

inspired by muses that knew the Achaeans

that inspired our predecessors’ poets all

Helen Carr’s book: The Verse Revolutionaries

was where Donal discovered Glenn Hughes

located in Paris in 1929 pre-crash

among the literary set gathered in Paris then

A Moveable Feast describes that time

Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

Aldington’s Death of a Hero, two novels

written in Paris were published that year

Glenn Hughes, a visiting academic with a grant

To cover expenses while researching Imagism

For his anthology Stanford University Press 

will publish in 1931 was there in Paris

his wife and child living in Aldington’s English cottage

while Aldington was attending to his affairs

with women while writing his first novel

and for a few fleeting hours re-uniting with H.D.

which she confided to Hughes in a letter 

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