Evening
Musing
(after
Umberto Saba)
Moon rise.
In the street it’s still day
though dusk’s fast descending.
The young don’t notice the light fading,
they’re
intent on their careers.
They have no idea about death yet
in
the end it’s what helps them to live.
***
Georgia All Over the World
Though she had never been to the South
and her family was Yankee on both sides…
there was a woman who so loved
songs with Georgia
in them
she told her husband she wanted
to name their daughter, Georgia;
midnight train
to… ,… on my mind,
rainy night in…
Georgia,
but other arms reached out to him.
An imaginary child, her Georgia.
***
Buddha Nature
Dogs
are the ones
with
Buddha nature while we
anxiously
grasp
at
nothingness, losing our grip
on
the end of a very long leash
***
Turning 30 Twice Over
He
wanted to leave a beautiful
corpse.
Still alive at forty-five
he
committed seppuku.
It
was the age, the Sixties
feared
the thirties. At thirty
something
you got over it,
and
now that you approach thirty
twice
over, not a corpse yet
no
longer beautiful,
you
have stopped
reading
Mishima.
A version of "Turning 30 Twice Over" has been published previously in CVII.
Mary di Michele is an Italian-born Canadian
poet and novelist. Her most recent poetry book (her 10th), The Flower of Youth (ECW Press, 2011), is a collection of poems about the great
writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book was shortlisted for the 2012 A.M. Klein prize for poetry. Mary di Michele is a member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko's Dogs whose first book, Whisk, was published by Pedlar Press in 2013.
... about Mary di Michele .... about Yoko's Dogs
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