October 21 (Making Things Right) - a photo on Flickriver

            Making Things Right
     for my father

Driving through the apple orchards
heavy with fruit,
I realize I have let the anniversary of your death
slip by -- ten years already, or is it eleven?
It's a gray morning, and the clouds press down,
obscuring the sun.

I wonder if you knew
when you had to be helped on with your shoes
for the ride to the hospital
that you would never again
stroke your cat
or walk into your lab room
with its walls lined with antique instruments and books.

What I remember most from that time
is standing by your bed
as you grew smaller and smaller,
less and less of you
who had so frightened me as a child,
and looking down at you
lying there quietly
when it was too late to talk.

I just held your hand
and told you I loved you.
I don't know what you heard
or what you knew,
but those words were all that was left
that could matter
before you leapt off
from your bed
in that tiny white room
into something huge. 
 — Barbara Bloom
   

Taken on: October 21, 2007

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Sets appears in: • Poetry • my 2007 photo-a-day set

Groups appears in: • Pullman Yard - Atlanta, GA

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