Simplified, Thanks
for Roy Fisher and Tom Raworth
to you top gods who turned up
when my truck was pushed off road:
to you who uncanned humanness
with solicitude to ghost me:
for such selflessness while immortalling
as not to ask me who was part of me
and not to mind who I unheld though what you got
was not all I have been: thanks. I’ve unmultiplied.
for Roy Fisher and Tom Raworth
to you top gods who turned up
when my truck was pushed off road:
to you who uncanned humanness
with solicitude to ghost me:
for such selflessness while immortalling
as not to ask me who was part of me
and not to mind who I unheld though what you got
was not all I have been: thanks. I’ve unmultiplied.
Claire Crowther