Saturday, October 01, 2022
Finale
C.H. Sisson, "Finale," Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, ©1998), p. 496:
Inscription on the near-illegible headstone:
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Nothing means anything now:Headstone of Sisson in Langport:
I am alone
— My mind a vacant space,
My heart of stone.
A tuneless thing I am,
A broken lyre.
I cannot even boast
A flameless fire.
There is the work I did
— Paper and ink —
I have no part in it:
There is no link
Between the man who wrote
— And more, was once alive,
And this relic for whom
The end does not arrive.
Although the life is gone
There is no corspe to show:
When others find it, I
Alone shall never know.
NORA SISSONHat tip: Eric Thomson.
NEE GILBERTSON
1914-2003
CHARLES HUBERT SISSON
1914-2003
