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A Reverie by the Shore
We all respect you, Sir, for the violence
of your death. Who'd ever heard of a stingray
turning its tail into a spear
and thrusting it in someone's heart?
What can one say but Wow, way to go!
I walked once alongside a ray, at dawn,
drawn from the shore step by step, entranced.
Could it have done the same with me?
The sea has so many ways to kill a person.
But your death was as though Ocean himself
had crushed you with a single kiss.
April 19, 2008
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Tom Disch was a treasure. He suffered so. I wonder what he'd be writing now had he lived through the last couple of years.
Posted by: Leslie McGrath | November 25, 2011 at 09:16 AM