Silver lining:
wishful trust,
wooden nickels,
pixie dust.
And yet that which
I can’t deny:
white hot silver
in the sky.
Thanks yet again to photographer Emily Berg Baine.
Silver lining:
wishful trust,
wooden nickels,
pixie dust.
And yet that which
I can’t deny:
white hot silver
in the sky.
Thanks yet again to photographer Emily Berg Baine.
Deaf phone line
hard blue chair
what’s the point?
no one’s there
austere right angles
sterile, glistening
rigid vacuum:
no one’s listening.
You may think this
nihilistic
but caregivers know
it’s realistic.
One of the reasons I started my blog was to write about caregiving. I return to that subject from time to time although I continually grapple with the related issue of denial. It’s so much easier to deny than to listen because listening requires acknowledging. But denial makes the caregiver’s isolation unimaginably more damaging.
With thanks to the S.W. Berg Photo Archives for this expressive, poignant photo.