A Toast for the new year and a ‘review’ of LIFE, AFTER LIFE

Season’s greetings!

JC welcomes feedback on her poems at this site. She just received these remarks from a careful reader of poems in Life, after life — from epitaph to epilogue:

“Hardly any poem could I pass without at the very least two reads…It’s a charge of depth and lightness. And the structures lend themselves to the contemplation of ephemeral lives in the context of the mystery of time, each with its wisp of complex experience.” EP, Montreal.

JC thanks EP for these discerning and positive comments.

From Life, after life, she offers this found poem in the hope readers will take up her call.

Splendid terms

 Make a toast to those you love,

to one-of-a-kind places that meant the most

right down to the lawn chair.

Recall one act of disobedience, rarely-made

mistakes, holy like a startled forest animal.

                 Sources: April 20, 2017, notices in remembrance of: Earl, Ernst, Rosalind, Phyllis, Irit, Thomas, Derek, and Sylvia; and obituary articles, “Edmonton star won six Grey Cups” by Allan Maki; “Songwriter Sylvia Moy helped Stevie Wonde find his sound,” by Richard Sandomir, New York Times News Service.

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