The poet, Paul Celan, was described by his biographer John Felstiner, as a poet who wrote brilliantly about destruction, the Holocaust in Celan’s case. He had used poetry, the biographer said, to create “a language for the unsayable.”
Caution Cans
When I was young a friend told me I drove like I owned the world. Today, no one under 85 will get in my car with me. My nephew tells me he’s seen dead people drive faster.
Caution has slowly … Read the rest
Staying Alive
I had many years of caregiving for elderly parents that irrevocably changed me. I was not left with words of wisdom, just fear–a wide interstate four lane streak of fear for my future as a 63 year old, a 63 … Read the rest