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Wed Sep-17-08 07:21 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 9/17/2008) |
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The Shoe
Each time I relived it, after the worst was over, I'd say to myself, as if my fate would solace me, "at least I'll never have to do this again." It is true that I'll never have to kiss his dying hands, now dead. I'll never have to find where he left his coffee mug, now mine. I'll never have to wash his hair or repair his typewriter or stock the medicine stand. I'll never even have to find places that can use his clothes because some friend--I don't remember who-- did that for me when I could not. I distributed his portrait, I picked up his poems.
I thanked friends and children for helping me hold on. I made braids out of dead funeral flowers to border the rooms where once he breathed and took on the heavy chores, gladly, of loving me. I sprinkled one teaspoon of his ashes on our bereft bed and slept with them. They scourged by body.
But when the single shoe, the mate I thought had got sent off with its partner, showed up, today, alone, crouching behind the couch, alive with Effie’s opulent Turkish angora fur, I knew solace was something I could neither seek nor find. Oh, beloved! I know I am an old woman. but I cannot live in your shoe.
Kathryn Starbuck
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Oh boy...
To handle such a loss so well...
Only to lose it at this discovery...
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