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Poetry of Issue #6
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Interaction
Squeezing by me on the stairwell My father was in a coma Robert Roth— Music composition by Hendrik van Oordt __  To see a performance of this piece click here __________________________________ Perfume
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Sanctuary City Sanctuary City rocks To see a performance of this piece click here Sanctuary City  ©Frank Murphy: Robert Roth Reading |
When an Old Man Loses (for Donald Lev)
When an old man
loses an old friend his sorrow is
greater than all his years
It becomes a coat
he cannot take off
no matter the weather.
It is a heavy coat
but it gives no warmth,
no relief from the cold of death.
And yet
he wears it as he wanders through
the neighborhood of his grief,
blue avenues, gray streets,
blocks the color of early
morning mist
And while he walk he cries,
"Haunt me." into the sleeve
of the coat he wears.
And, receiving no answer, he watches
as his hat of pain is blown
across a terrain of
vacant years
When an old man loses an old friend he holds
his friends memory in the pocket of his coat
a bit of warmth against the
absolute chill he feels
As if someone left a door open
in a bitter winter.
Frank Murphy__ |
Dublin
Even in the magical city of Dublin
a sign in a store window
directs us to
"Take the Magic Tour
to Disney Land."
Ah Ulysses, come home,
come home
Frank Murphy__ |