In Memory of Saskia Hamilton (1967-2023) - poet, editor and teacher

For Saskia

 

To discover months after — no reason

why anyone should tell me, the overlap

a geographical and temporal subset.

 

And I never arrived to read to your crowd,

but even then you were generous.

I can’t believe that such things

 

mean nothing to the dead —

no, there’s time to consider

even as we pass between classes,

 

the quick words of occasion.

Those peripheries of friendship;

associates from an earlier period.

 

But we did talk over punk

and Fugazi, our belief in poetry,

though never too much.

 

 

            John Kinsella