Sunday, November 6, 2016

Fall Back

Last night the clocks fell back in the U.S. (Lagging behind Europe, as usual now for the former empire.) About ten years ago, I heard about my mother's diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in early November, and I wrote the poem below. [Note: blogspot keeps inserting a space before the last lines of my poems. I can't prevent it. Why?]

Since it's also the time of year when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest, I have included below that a poem I wrote about death. Any old excuse, yeah? I found myself using that phrase about the veil, which I love, and repeat every year with relish, to one of my dying patients the other day. As I said it, I wondered whether she was thinking it was a bit insensitive of me, since we both knew she would be imminently passing through that veil. Or, being the no-nonsense type she was, she may have thought I was full of crap. Either way, she passed through the veil yesterday, just after midnight. I hope she has found what she was looking for.

Fall Back











All Souls Passing Over







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