Friday, May 17, 2019

MOVING ON (and sticking around)


It’s still shocking that he’s dead:
thirty years since easy access by phone,
complaints about his domestic scene
filled most of the call, but also
gentle encouragements,
occasional conversations, questions,
observations about his growing puzzlement
with what he heard sitting on the church steps,
trying to reconcile it
with his experience of life
and what his mathematical mind offered
as a different path to truth.

The disruption of his death
is less decisive now, as though
he is present in a quieter variation
of the way he was in life –
occasionally seen or heard,
known to be there behind the stage
as we played our roles.

The shock of his death,
tempered by time, is
a worn pebble in the stream
a different colour now to then.

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