In memory of Tom Clark (1941–2018), from a manuscript in progress. Sigo’s most recent collection of poetry, Royals, was published by Wave Books in 2017.

In the day, blood, yet we live by night
In the black between splashes, Jesus,
I just gave away your beautiful book Air to a poet on his 25th
   birthday
Only now to hear you have died on that brick racetrack of a street
Of course, I think of Frank and Françoise Dorléac
(you may have already met)
North Berkeley feels not unlike Beacon
Hill in its way, having absorbed the available
Institutional…