The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 4/15/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Moment of Inertia

It's what makes the pancake hold still
while you slip the spatula under it
so fast it doesn't move, my father said
standing by the stove.

All motion stopped when he died.
With his last breath the earth
lurched to a halt and hung still on its axis,
the atoms in the air
coming to rest within their molecules,
and in that moment
something slid beneath me
so fast I couldn't move.

Debra Spencer

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:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

1. ...

:(


I think I'm going to call my father today. :hug:

[xchrom]

2. wow -- stunning -- i had the priest come and do last rights for my dad

in my home -- where i had cared for him full time for several years.

that time at the last rights is something i will never, ever forget -- the suspension, the beauty, the deep letting go.

he died shortly after.

[lizziegrace]

3. ...

:hug:

[BlueIris]

4. Damn you, Retro.

:cry:

[Haole Girl]

5. Beautiful

Thank you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Retro...

Oh, wow...

Now there's a poet...

Her words hang so delicately in the mind...

Just beautiful...

Thank you...

:hi:

[BlueIris]

7. Kick.