Follow the Food

 

adapted for fast movement
hunting in light

one engine stops
another starts

to make surplus sacred
always missing

emotion liquidised
until distracted

from Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2003), copyright Tom Raworth 2003, used by permission of the author and the publisher

Tom Raworth (1938 – 2017), in addition to a career that included being the editor of Outburst magazine, founder of the Goliard ...

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