How could I forget? - Brian McSweeney

[Larry Robinson]

How could I forget?


Headed to Vermont

With a head full of Frost

How did he last

through all his tragedies

to have tea with Nikita

in his late eighties

sent by Kennedy

not that  long ago

a President looked to a poet

and the Russians loved him

because he was a farmer

Yeats loved the soil too

and of course O'Donohue

and Seamus Heaney too

the stock of fathers

who could wield a spade

so sons could wield a pen.

	- Brian McSweeney