We hardly knew you, Alan

Goodbye
to the many faces of
Rickman...

Seagull
and Rasputin,
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
and lost but not lost Hitchhiker,
Diehard winter guest and
Sheriff of Robin's Hood;
the voice of God &
something the lord made;
Abeselom, the caterpillar
smoking
in private lives:
the close shave
of a demon barber,
Serverus Snape,
Mark Antony
and all good men
or by far, none.

I'll love you for Rachel Corrie,
a seminar into the secret
nurturing heart
in the eponymous role
of playing the many faces of oneself.