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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Passages

This is in response to my sister's wonderful post about our parents, siblings and extended family. This is the title poem of the poetry chapbook (by the same name) I had published a few years ago. As we get older, the family connections get more precious and more fragile. At some point, many of the more endearing are but tendrils of memory.



As we lose the pieces of our past,
Person by person,
As we cut the cords,
One by one,
Of our invulnerability,
We are left to wobble
Uncertainly
In the vast realization of our own mortality.

5 comments:

quid said...

Pammy...

Made me a little sad...probably because I've started to wobble.

Love, Q

Pam said...

LOL!! Quid, I've been wobbly for some time! :)

Bob said...

This is great. I think I see some familiar faces there . . .

Kelly said...

This says exactly what I feel. I've been wobbling like crazy!!

Marion said...

"Passages" is still one of my all time favorite books of poetry. You're in good company on my poetry shelf right there between Linda Pastan and Marge Piercy! You'll never be old, Pammie. You're just too young at heart...