(1). In Memoriam. (2). The Silence of Nam June Paik. (New Ending).

                      1.

              
            In Memoriam.

                        *

Tying up my shoes, I remember when
    You first taught me to lace them,
          A red rose in your hair.


                       *

             The party over?
      The guests are leaving?
     Must I turn out the lights?


                      *

That shoe floating in the pond -
Is it not one of the special pair
I bought for you last summer?


                    *

Do not remind me of that Judas kiss
   Among bare willows in the park:
     High up the swallows flying.



                    *

  Poems locked for seven years
   Inside a Highgate sepulchre
        Rebuke forgetfulness.



Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
December 6th. 2014. - December 30th. 2015.

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                      2.

The Silence of Nam June Paik. (New Version).


Broken records

Shredded spools of tape

Voices of an era
Lying smashed
Upon the floor

Now everything you said to me
Is dust for the hoover

Little scraps of black
The last of your love letters
Hammered into splinters

Words of false regret

Drifting dust of lies

Outside my shuttered window
A dog barking
At imagined whispers

Echoes of your footsteps
Not dinting the snow


Trevor John Karsavin Potter
December 6th. - 7th. 2014. - December 30th. 2015.
August 7th. - December 27th. 2016,

Original version of this poem was posted in January 2015. This new version is the finished poem.