Friday 3 July 2009

"It Is Writing" by Roy Fisher

IT IS WRITING


Because it could do it well
the poem wants to glorify suffering.
I mistrust it.

I mistrust the poem in its hour of success,
a thing capable of being
tempted by ethics into the wonderful.


Roy Fisher
The Thing About Joe Sullivan: Poems 1971-1977 
(Carcanet, 1978)

1 comment:

  1. A slight but lovely piece of work by my favourite living poet - one of my real inspirations :-)

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