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HELPLESSLY HOPEFUL AT 90
The old lady poet a poem or heaven
—never a poetess— the same to her.
is dying,
wasting away before my eyes “I’m just moving on through it,”
and ears, she tells me.
her voice stiffens No not yet, I think, and cry.
her chuckle flutters
her cheeks sag and pouch If I were God I’d say to her:
her faith mellows. Gloria, you are a poem
She is dimming— Mine.
only a poem brightens her day,
engages her mind Rev’d Lyn G. Brakeman is an Episcopal priest and the author of
delights her soul— two books and a 2016 memoir God Is Not a Boy’s Name. Becoming Woman.
Becoming Priest published by Wipf and Stock/Cascade Books.
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