Roy Fisher: June 11, 1930 - March 21, 2017
Bench Marks
for Roy Fisher
If you give me a piece of your mind
– one looking or formed like
a school desk fissured with inscriptions,
milk stains, that cracked varnish,
nooks, crannies, hearts, tokens,
marks of weakness, others’ sorrow
where, synapses built from attention
wandered to drops as they blink in a rain-pool,
drenched leaf-mulch choking a gutter
or ripples on some surface water,
thought concentrates until you find
it and the world align ...
If you give me a piece of your mind,
I’ll use it for the peace of mine.
for Roy Fisher
If you give me a piece of your mind
– one looking or formed like
a school desk fissured with inscriptions,
milk stains, that cracked varnish,
nooks, crannies, hearts, tokens,
marks of weakness, others’ sorrow
where, synapses built from attention
wandered to drops as they blink in a rain-pool,
drenched leaf-mulch choking a gutter
or ripples on some surface water,
thought concentrates until you find
it and the world align ...
If you give me a piece of your mind,
I’ll use it for the peace of mine.
Peter Robinson