William Corbett
One Sunday Night
Hungry and fressing
smoked Gouda slabs,
greasy pepato salame
on sourdough bread
cut lengthwise.
Bev out in this rain.
Glass of Olara Tinto.
Arden calls, ‘What’s
a thinker disclaiming
any knowledge of God?’
A second glass of wine
thin ruby light.
The answer is agnostic
and rain comes down
to beat the band.
Sunday dinnerless calm.
Why all this?
Not just because
but because I’ve just
finished James Schuyler’s
A Few Days
a dream after
it will be a memory.
Flowers in vases
more flowers with
and without names
costly, cheap and desired
in Schuyler’s poems.
Poems of loss
and how not to care
and how to care
but not grieve.
smoked Gouda slabs,
greasy pepato salame
on sourdough bread
cut lengthwise.
Bev out in this rain.
Glass of Olara Tinto.
Arden calls, ‘What’s
a thinker disclaiming
any knowledge of God?’
A second glass of wine
thin ruby light.
The answer is agnostic
and rain comes down
to beat the band.
Sunday dinnerless calm.
Why all this?
Not just because
but because I’ve just
finished James Schuyler’s
A Few Days
a dream after
it will be a memory.
Flowers in vases
more flowers with
and without names
costly, cheap and desired
in Schuyler’s poems.
Poems of loss
and how not to care
and how to care
but not grieve.
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