(for Kevin Higgins)
In both worlds, this mug with the bees
In this world, it is chipped.
I bought it before
browsing, as I did,
a little treat, ceramic and clean, the yellow bees.
I wanted to buy one for you to mark
how we joked about the poets
suddenly reinvented as eco-poets.
Our biweekly lunch in Newtownsmith.
Afterwards, the restaurant closed down
I stood outside it open-mouthed.
I never got you the mug. I wish I did.
You did not travel from that world to this
though, how clearly you predicted it.
I do not browse so much now as nip
in and out of town. Opening the car door
I wait to hear the bees in the Cotoneaster
They are still buzzing boisterously
but maybe they are wasps, not bees.
Rachel Coventry’s monograph Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Her third collection, The West (Salmon Poetry), is forthcoming
In both worlds, this mug with the bees
In this world, it is chipped.
I bought it before
browsing, as I did,
a little treat, ceramic and clean, the yellow bees.
I wanted to buy one for you to mark
how we joked about the poets
suddenly reinvented as eco-poets.
Our biweekly lunch in Newtownsmith.
Afterwards, the restaurant closed down
I stood outside it open-mouthed.
I never got you the mug. I wish I did.
You did not travel from that world to this
though, how clearly you predicted it.
I do not browse so much now as nip
in and out of town. Opening the car door
I wait to hear the bees in the Cotoneaster
They are still buzzing boisterously
but maybe they are wasps, not bees.
Rachel Coventry’s monograph Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Her third collection, The West (Salmon Poetry), is forthcoming
