Monday, November 9, 2009

Saying Goodbye

Beloved Dead

I can't believe you're gone
two years now and I only
just learned you had died
sixty-four is too young
you look good in your photo
playing your guitar and I
learned new things about
you from your obit, a writer
and I wonder if it was poetry
you were a poetic sort
liked e e cummings, painter
potter too, still living in Ithaca
my heart is sad today, to
think I could now be your
widow, and in a way, I am
the only wife you ever knew

Diane Belleville

2 comments:

  1. Poignant and a reminder of how we are always connected in some way. Its interesting that you both became writers.

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  2. This is so sad, Diane. So hard to lose someone of such close age proximity. Sixty-four IS too young!

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