Friday, August 7, 2009

Ute has appeared in several poems ...


A very good friend and colleague suddenly died in April of 2006. Ute is on my mind a lot and I miss her quite often. While cleaning out another section of the closet I came across the copy of an email that was forwarded to me. Below appears a poem by Hank Lazer who writes poetry and realized one day (April 19, 2006) that Ute has been on his mind as well.


DYING

that which calls
me out of
myself as a

small child after
a bout with
polio she would

insist i can
do it myself
dying is not

as i saw
with my father
something one can

do easily five
light blue eggs
in the nest

after the final
chorus i said
let him live
*

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