Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self

by Tony Tremblay

I Shall Not When I Die

I shall not when I dieQuake for hell-fireNor dream with desireOf a celestial sky,

But rather grieve with pain -Still thinking onThe things I have doneAnd may not do again.

From Against Perspective. Reprinted with permission of Kathleen Forsythe, Cogswell's literary executor. Back to Selected Poems