May 14, 2007

• What a Weekend…

  I’m having a rough time today.  My Dad fell and broke his hip yesterday, and with him being terminally ill, he is in a tremendous amount of pain.  He needs surgery too, and the doctors are afraid of serious complications, but the fracture is too serious not to do the surgery.

   

  Also, this weekend I fell and broke my foot, so I am in a good deal of pain myself.  If you could send your prayers and energy our way, I would greatly appreciate it.

   

  Now for something a little more happy.  I got word today that Clark Street Review out of Colorado will be publishing my poems “And the Beat goes on,” and “The Girl You Ended Up With.”   In addition, I’ll have some work in the maiden issue of Venus Envy, a Magazine for Women.  Check out GoJake’s blog for more details.  She’s the editor-in-chief.

   

  Here’s a poem.  I wrote it from my mother’s perspective, as if she were an old woman looking back on her marriage as her husband becomes an old man.  Unfortunately, she won’t get that chance unless a miracle happens.

   

  Glaciers

   

  Melting suits you, Darling,

  as your picture changes from

  a once prickly young republican

  to one that sees with golden wit.

   

  The psyche struggles in a search

  for usefulness, and your fingers

  prod plaster and lathe ceilings for signs

  of springing from their keystones.

   

  This is a good place to be,

  where losses and sums unpaid have faded

  beyond our thatched roof

  into the Mecca of lost decades.

   

  There is something about your smell

  and how you’ve traded expensive cologne

  for the scent of honest crafted sweat.

  This leaves me bent towards pleasure.

   

  The future is a shrug, an afterthought,

  It collects dust near our inner room

  as we focus on the Great Plains of now,

  the landscape of solitude and togetherness.

   

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