Thursday, August 20, 2009

Celina

Tuesday will be the 2nd anniversay of my niece's death. This poem is for her:

Spherical
For Celina

A
baby
is born



In 9 seconds,
Or 3 or 7, another

Male
female

Into spheres of life


Dotted with distasteful stars
And periodic comets to doom
Life on this bubble



A
baby
dies



In 9 seconds—or 4, or 2—another

Male
female

Replaces her


Usurper lent a ladder
Like Jacob’s

To fall and give way




To another baby

© Joseph E. Arechavala 11/5/07

1 comment:

4evernite said...

Good poem. And the circle of life goes on. It's like when my dad died in June (a very hard thing for me to face) and my granddaughter was born in July.