By Peter Robinson.
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, 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‘s most recent collection of poems is The Returning Sky (Shearsman Books), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2012. In 2013 he published Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories
Portfolio: This is one of six new poems published in June 2013 in the Fortnightly Review.
