Wind Dog

The ''wind dog'' is a broken rainbow, but, in the title poem of Tom Paulin''s sixth collection, it provides this most agile of poets with a perfect bridge into childhood and its ''lingo-jingo of beginnings''. The poem is a gloriously singing meditation on the life of the ear - ''the only true reader'' - and the meaning and music of both words and pre-verbal sounds are a recurring theme in this ric...