[lit-ideas] Re: Focusing, II
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:48:49 -0500
I second John's comment.
Mike Geary
2011/10/12 John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> A wonderful, truly terrifying poem.
>
> John
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 2011/10/13, at 0:44, "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ve turned seventy-seven****
>
> The day she has an MRI****
>
> To assess possible****
>
> Damage to her brain****
>
> From perhaps a stroke.****
>
> There’s no point****
>
> Railing against inevitability.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thirty years ago these****
>
> Intervening years ****
>
> Seemed an eternity****
>
> And if we could live****
>
> This long, a paradise,****
>
> But I never thought the touch****
>
> Of her hand would grow this cold.****
>
>
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