Monday, May 23, 2005

Carolyn's Farewell

I just discovered this poem Carolyn left as a comment under Travis's "What the Thunder Said" post on Diapsalmata:

Between the mountain
And the river

Between the plaza
And the highway

There was a house,
And the house was full of Timmonses.

Between the city
And the village

Beyond Lake Bob
And the cornfield

There is a dorm
And the dorm housed Brooks and Travis.

Beyond the summer
And the ceremony

The mountain, river,
Plaza, highway,

City, village,
Lake, and cornfield

Will remain, but
Brooks and Travis will be gone.

And we will miss them.

2 comments:

Travis said...

God bless you, Carolyn. Stay cool up on the Mesa. You are going to have a hot summer!

Yes, I emailed this particular prose poem to Carolyn and thought it had been lost in the shuffle. No. She wrote a poem to it. This makes two poems for me during my time at PHC (the other being from Sarah Lewis). I share this one with Brooks though. Fitting.

I miss New Mexico more than ever as my fate in the South is sealed for at least two years. The Plaza is a distant vision of hacky sack players and soft breezes.

Derby said...

yes, we will miss you both. I'm glad we still have your poetry!