New and Selected Poems

In Sorrow and Sunlight

116 In Sorrow and Sunlight In memory of Carrie Levenson-Wahl On her last day, I was driving south Past fields of corn and cotton; miles of green Sloped hills where horses roamed between small towns, Like memories of places I’d never been. Once, I drove across mountains to see her. Horses grazed in the fog filled fields beside Her house, moisture clinging to their fur— Like strings of tiny stars shining in sunlight. In my dreams she lives, within the world she loved. Notes ringing the morning air like tears— Her voice tinged with sorrow and sun, The bell song of her leaving filling the spheres. And this is what I hear calling in the night, When stars remind me of her joy and her bright Suffering, my friend singing in the gathering light. ...