Yes -- and with his apple only half eaten, too.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "judy prince" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: snap - Burke
> Androo, simply wonderful! The young boy green 'n cheeky, never, truly, to
> be buried beneath others' glassy-dull veneers! Praise God for subtle
> favors, most especially those bestowed by the poet.
>
> Blessings, Judy
>
> Subject: snap - Burke
>
>
> I'm impatient today,
> wasting hours with trivial pursuits.
> Tomorrow is the funeral
> and yesterday was his death.
>
> His daughters can stop
> being afraid of him.
> His wife can stop
> saying 'it's unfair'
> and 'we'll keep going'.
> His father knows the truth
> of all the bad news now.
> There is no hope.
> His brothers organise
> the rosary, the requiem,
> the funeral, the wake ...
> When all the business of death
> is put away until next time,
> like Christmas decorations,
> they will cry, privately,
> by themselves.
> His little girls will get
> too many presents on
> their next birthday,
> and their mother will
> always cry on occasion.
>
> But a young boy still
> runs in my mind, stops
> and looks at me with
> his cheeky smile,
> always with
> a big green apple,
> half eaten, in his hand.
>
>
>
> (for my nephew Adrian Churack
>
|