Bill, I find this interesting, and maybe I simply find myself drawn to
withdrawal versus that more painful reality. I find the richness of your
work accommodate both as I reread this.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 8:41 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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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