Hi everyone,
I encountered this poem, from 1958, in “New Departures” (got it from British Library)
The text is this –
Nothing less than the solar core
is good enough
A living cell, a unique specimen
described by its discoverers
as ’eminently newsworthy,’
turned out, upon severe microscopy,
to be compact of mud, cities,
carbon dioxide, fogs, trafficjams,
seediness personified or institutionalized,
in short a little world
that would have been miraculous
if only things had been different.
I know nothing about “Patrick Featherston”. Am assuming he is/was American (institutionalized instead of institutionalised).
Does anyone know anything?
Btw, there’s a band called the Jazz Butcher, and the late lead singer had clearly read the poem, because he used it in a lyric of a song called Solar Core.
marchudson.net 
He was my uncle – worked at the British Council and was a poet off somewhat obscure themes. He wrote ’12 Days Before Blasphemy’, a work about the Elizabethan poet, Christopher Marlowe