Monday, September 05, 2011

On Outliving My Daughter the Linguist




Three years four months and six days

Since you sighed and were gone

In your thirties and me still working



And hour by hour today

With no whole word

All the emptied patterns

Of your talk come crowding



Into my brain for shelter:

Bustling, warm, exact.

You would be interested.









patterned after a poem by Roy Fisher