Tag Archives: the Passages of Life

Pomelos, a Poem

On the aging process, translated… The Pomelos of Childhood Is Like Snot Spread Sideways Shot Out Like the Arrows from a Bow from the younger years, to the late adulthood years, NOT my photograph… Telling Mom I’m Not Cold! The … Continue reading

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On Right Before Midlife

The half-way marker of life, translated… I’d Heard, that Some of the Things Will Never Return Again And Heard, that Many of the Things Had Been Stored in the Freeze-Frames This Precise Moment will be Many Years Later, from a … Continue reading

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During Those Final Days…Drawing a Period on Dad’s Life

The caretaker’s notes, translated… The notebook was the one my older brother kept, of caretaking of my father as he’d fractured his hips, it’s a memo, and, it’d provided us with the connectedness of us, children; the art journal was … Continue reading

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Forgotten to Say Goodbye, the Words I Didn’t Say

The passages of life, translated… My father was ill and bedridden for almost three years.  The line, “Long illness makes the children awful”, is describing me. Since my father got injured at work, these couple of years, I’d gone home … Continue reading

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