Literary Historian
I remember them saying,
these poems, their something
for someone at sometime
for me too, at one time.
That got in the way;
so I sent them away
back into history—
just temporarily.
They won’t come back now.
I can’t remember how
the words spoke, or what
they said,
except:
We are all dead
Copyright Credit: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, "Literary Historian" from Collected Poems and Translations. Copyright © 1971by Veronica Forrest-Thomson. Reprinted by permission of Shearsman Books.
Source: Collected Poems (Shearsman Books, 2008)