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Tom Raworth: July 19, 1938 - February 8, 2017     


5:15 p.m. February 9th. 2017
(i.m. Tom Raworth)

 
on the train from Watford Junction, shivering
in air conditioning    
            the couple opposite might’ve slept
in their clothes       a flower
in his buttonhole, her hat…     
 
*
              the time Tom rang me
from Chicago O’Hare
(we were living in Skelmersdale)
from a pay phone in an ice storm
 
                     & that time in Robert’s
office with the radiator too hot to touch before
the reading, patiently signing my stack of
books     Tottering State:
 
for Cliff
              after dinner – 
– before filing cabinet
                  with good wishes
                          Tom
    Edge Hill – February 15th 2001
 
*
... his jacket round her, her head on his
shoulder &       
                       i was very impressed,
she said, with how much
they enjoyed their wedding day

Cliff Yates
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