Thanks, Sheila. The poem was supposed to be about how we cope with death or
how death copes with us but with drafting excisions it may be read as
simply departures as in withdrawals.
Bill
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 9:59 am, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Very real, Bill. Vivid, true in its conceptual being. How departure feels.
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 2:01 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
>
> > Someone you care about
> >
> > will leave the table
> >
> > and not come back
> >
> >
> > will become
> >
> > an absence
> >
> >
> > riding in a different
> >
> > compartment
> >
> >
> > Your head will not seem ample
> >
> > to carry their legacy
> >
> >
> > All that proximity
> >
> > once so available
> >
> > now so fled
> >
> >
> > The de-parted
> >
> > no longer attached
> >
> > don’t so much shift
> >
> > to some other plateau
> >
> >
> > as dog our steps,
> >
> > blunder into our dreams
> >
> >
> > You never know
> >
> > as you turn a corner
> >
> > of thought
> >
> >
> > when they might approach
> >
> >
> > bw
> >
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