At Stratford-Upon-Avon. Poem by Michael Walker

The London-to-Stratford-upon- Avon
train ride rolled by in rhythm in an hour.
Stratford was where Shakespeare was born,
went to school, was a high school teacher,
and married Anne Hathaway, had children.
Shakespeare wrote and acted in his plays
in London, which had the theatres he needed;
'This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England',
I thought looking out the train window,
after the English tragedy of the Crown.





- 14,15 December,2017.