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IN MEMORIAM: MISS J.H.

She was nearly deaf apparently and nearly blind

and ‘mentally deficient’ since infancy –

but could see an old friend to wave

and sound a greeting.

 

She was definitely Thurberesque

with her wall-eyed look and stolid gait.

 

She felt pain and wept.

 

O prisoner, love alone could not release you!

 

 

 

SISYPHUS

David Selzer By David Selzer1 Comment1 min read463 views

An old man, wrists like a boy’s, round and round

the footpaths of the park, wheeled his wife

swaddled in many fading coats. She was blind,

made a gummy music that might have been hymns.

A child, passing, did not know when to laugh,

nor I, a young man then, how to deserve

such rapture.