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Imagining the Future: Ruminations on Fathers and Other Apparitions
by Carolyn HowardJohnson   
Books by Carolyn HowardJohnson
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Kindle Edition
How To Do It Frugally

Category:  Poetry
ISBN-10:  144997774X

ISBN-13: 9781449977740

Price: $1.99 (eBook)


The new book in my (with Magdalena Ball) series of seasonal celebration chapbooks of poetry. The perfect $6.95 Father's Day gift.



Excerpt

This is a reminder to enjoy the men in our lives when we can...

Reincarnation

How little I know of dragonflies,
how they come in August,
leave again without a word,
wonder where they live when I can’t
see them, whether they sting, whether
that is a song they sing
or a warning.

This dragonfly, small, the first I’ve seen
dressed in amber and gold sunlight,
joins me in a swim, skims
the water’s surface, divebombs.

Then comes
another—this one familiar
opal, much larger, mating perhaps,
two of them faster than one.
I duck to avoid them, frightened,
feel the water close over
my head. I choke, inhale air.
The things I didn’t know
about my father, his coming and goings,
the fearing he would not return.
One day, only a dawn or decade ago,
he didn’t.


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Reviews for "Imagining the Future: Ruminations on Fathers and Other Apparitions"

Reviewed by Joyce White 3/1/2010
Loved this Carolyn. Would very much like to read your new book.
Let me know when it is out. Sorry, I haven't written you lately.
I've had a lot of Sciatica pain. So happy tomorrow is first day of
spring. Luv Joyce
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