July 2024
Penelope Moffet
penstemon1@gmail.com
Bio Note: As far as I and my doctor know I'm in good health, but it's my 70th year to heaven (big birthday this October), and I'm working on reducing my few belongings to even fewer. Meanwhile, my life feels rich with time for poetry, friends and walks in the Santa Monica Mountains. Other poems of mine have appeared recently or will appear soon in Poemeleon, Sheila-Na-Gig, ONE ART and Calyx.

Note to the Executors

When I die it’s fine
to give away
whatever anyone
will take
and toss the rest.
I’m passing on
some books now
one by one
to friends and
Little Libraries
but want
to reread all
before they go
and so it’s slow.
Put any notebooks
that you find
in the recycle bin.
Thoughts I didn’t
take to other pages
were too thin.

©2024 Penelope Moffet
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