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Forty eight days now–
since you fell into my arms as the sun rose:
final pieta
I can still feel your weight
as it changed.
Spring now, and yet
my heart is still entangled
in bare winter branches–
a lifetime’s worth:
piercing yet beginning
to bloom in the light
of you still.
.. . .
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Early December
dusk falling on the Ponte Sublico
horizon dipped in pink
How many times have you
and I crossed that cobblestone bridge?
Dueling musicians,
punkabbestia,
high red colonnade along
the Tiber;
you talking about
Giordano Bruno
and waiting for me
while I draw…
Always waiting for me–
me who you cal “my love”.
♦
Twenty-one Years After is a tribute to Erin Currier’s love for Anthony Hassett, the nonconformist American poet and visual artist who shared her life for twenty-one years. These poems were written in the months following Anthony’s death at dawn on February 17, 2017. “Forty eight days now…” and “Early December…” are the first and final poems in the collection. Out on CSF Publishing.
Erin Currier is an established visual artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her art is exhibited and collected internationally and has been featured in four books: The Paintings of Erin Currier, Carnet d’Asie, Carnet D’Amerika, and Last Sketches.
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