‘How big?’ ‘That big’

Andrew Motion

  • Notes on Fishing by Sergei Timmofeevich Aksakov, translated by Thomas Hodge
    Northwestern, 230 pp, US $30.00, September 1997, ISBN 0 08 101136 9

‘Do you want to ...’ and sometimes ‘Would you like to ...’ my mother sang, never sure which was right. ‘Do you want to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar?’ I was six but I thought I knew what she meant.

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