July 2018
I've always been possessed by "Yesterday." My tenth book is called TIME'S REFUGEE, and it's a line from first poem "Gravedona" which Firestone put on Verse-Virtual. John Lennon would have been my age, almost exactly. That word ends MANHATTAN CARNIVAL and DARK CARNIVAL (from FALLOUT). You can find MANHATTAN CARNIVAL on my website www.frederickfeirstein.com, and Grolier's Series of Established Poets is re-printing it in a few months.
NOTE: I write quickly and if I don't like a poem I throw it out. I wrote this on June 9th on a napkin at a diner where we were having breakfast and its "a keeper."
NOTE: I write quickly and if I don't like a poem I throw it out. I wrote this on June 9th on a napkin at a diner where we were having breakfast and its "a keeper."
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Anniversary Poem I love each mortal inch of you, Your implants and your wrinkles and your feet, Your refusal to accept despair, defeat, Your nurturing our grandchildren, our son. Today it's as we've just begun, Fifty-five years ago today. It's seems as if it's simply Yesterday. Sunny, the sky electric blue. As always, Linda, I love you. |
© 2018 Frederick Feirstein
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