I Wondered If People Might

This Misfortune You Find Is Of Your Own Manufacture.

I Have To Make Myself Write, Sometimes. In The Space Between Poems, You Somehow Forget How To Do It, Where To Begin. It Was Good To Be Task - Based For A While. I Just Came Downstairs Each Day, Picked The One I Was Going To Do That Day, And Wrote.

The Ordinary Can Be Absolutely Miraculous.

And Wonder, Dread And War Have Lingered In That Land Where Loss And Love In Turn Have Held The Upper Hand.

I Wondered If People Might Not Have Had Enough Of Simon Armitage And Wondered Whether I Hadn't Had Enough Of Simon Armitage.