OUR CATEGORY : Gil McElroy

Julian Day 2453933

Today requiresa past
The riverside roadclosed, silent& utterly still for the first timein who knowshow long
the houseslowly pulledfrom origin Ato destination B, stopping for the nightat the exact point between us& the river
A new view – all gables& dormers – inserted intothe old, the riverdisplaced
this strategyassembled here, this actionhaving weight& many bitsof order
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Julian Day 2454100

Twice, fromlove, she satthrough death
friend (first),& mother (yearslater)
father, al-most
thatNovember nightshared
Hard times
Wordless stancesin the world of change
~ Gil McElroy
This poem is from an ongoing, open-ended cycle of poems collectively entitled “The Julian Days”. The series is based on a system […]