(Note: Some of you may have seen this piece on Facebook, but since not all my Substack friends do FB, I re-post it here in remembrance of a dear friend gone long ago and much too soon.)
I think I would have liked her very much. I certainly like the poems you shared. Thank you for this, I lost a friend, a touchstone, a light, two years after you lost yours.
I think I would have liked her very much. I certainly like the poems you shared. Thank you for this, I lost a friend, a touchstone, a light, two years after you lost yours.
But as they say, they are still alive as long as we remember them.
As an aunt and never a mother I see that Claudia really nailed it : I will be your eccentric aunt
not often mentioned, different,
fundamentally pleased with my life,
kept to your peripheral vision
but decidedly, persistently there
my own woman.
It's around Christmas that those of us without children sometimes regret our decision
You and Claudia would have much to talk about! Thanks for reading my remembrance to her - and her poems that I included.