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One of the Newly-Old
My dear friend Rosemary, who turned 98 today!One of the Newly-Old Four friends well into their nineties chuckle when I call myself old You haven’t quite…
May 7
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The After
The After with thanks to Ellen Girardeau Kempler Of course there’s an after, cosmos still swirling and expanding in the wake of my body, gone—but I…
May 5
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Calligram - CASE STUDY
A Calligram is a poem shaped like its content.
Apr 30
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untitled haiku
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Apr 19
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Creaky
Creaky Waking up, a twinge of old age that ramshackle home loved and tended but wind-scoured beaten and wearing out still Writ this way the order of…
Apr 12
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Counterpoint
Counterpoint This body, this miracle will fail Destined to founder, designed to. The grievous irony— if we’re blessed, wisdom grows just then as the…
Mar 25
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Late Bloomer
Late Bloomer The expanse of one day zipping and somersaulting away Late blooming is hard when doors, locked long, fly open so close to the end
Mar 22
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Octogenarian
villanelle: a French form established in the sixteenth century that uses meter, rhyme, and a specific pattern of repeated lines.
Feb 19
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Isolation
Isolation The Japanese Minister of Loneliness has moved all kindergartens to the ground floor of elderly assisted-living centers. —Sara Kay Autumn…
Jan 5
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for Rosemary
For Rosemary The open palm of something true —Carrie Newcomer Take my hand, we belong together me, old you, older almost a generation We come from…
Nov 24, 2025
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on turning eighty
on turning eighty I’m careening toward an unknown end dawn rolls into evening loops into daybreak again time is not fixed it stretches and shrinks…
Nov 20, 2025
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salt tastes just the same
salt tastes just the same hot day weeding the garden, sweat pouring or weeping, lifelong friend gone the cut deep— salt, the same immediate sharp clean
Nov 18, 2025
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