Bill Berkson’s newest book is Portrait and Dream:New & Selected Poems
(Coffee House Press.) As I do on Sunday afternoons now, I take care of
my 93-year-old mom. Her own poetry – which she used to dictate to me –
is down to barely a trickle. Yet, when alert, she still likes to listen to poetry,
as well as jump in and make comments. Today I ask her if she would like
to hear one of Bill’s poems called "Vibration Society".
“Is that where you go?” I have not even gotten into the poem.
“What do you think the "Vibration Society" is, Mom?
“It’s where you go to wriggle.”
“Do you go to the Vibration Society?”
“Not me. I wriggle too much already.”
Well, that was kind of a poem-stopper. She was suddenly sleepy, and
insisted on going down for a nap, off to which I slowly marched her.
Stephen
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