Articles & Essays Book Reviews Creative Writing
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Volume 18 Number 1, April 2017
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Going Out to Eat
What does one
see
when one is weak
but a patient eye
who has faith in thee
who guarantees a word
or two for you
like words dug from
inside of me
like a fire trying to
burn in the rain
like wisdom for
a niece.
Together
A husband knows it’s the
sun
to take his wife home
so she may rest and get
well
and he may care
for her with all his light.
Both of these poems are about my family. I call them quick images or photographic memories that I put together in a poem. Each one has special meaning to me otherwise I would not write them. I do not find them easy to write but they are rewarding when I finish them. They offerme a way to express myself. The first poem “Going Out to Eat” is about drinking and driving, a few words of wisdom for my niece. The other “Together” is about my wife becoming ill so I take her home.