Vistas & Byways Spring 2016

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Pier, SF Embarcadero
photo by Jane Bell Goldstein

Yet Another Reminder
(For Annelise, 1946-2012)
by Edith Kaplan


​Were you here I would
call you immediately after I open the envelope
and see yet another silly penguin
staring up at me in greeting.
Who else shares
our obsession with tuxedoed birds that can’t fly?
 
Each time I see one
you are there in a heartbeat
sometimes softly and sadly
sometimes like a burst of anxiety
and always that tiny space in between--
empty.
 
Were you still here
we would linger ever longer
talking and laughing
listening and complaining
as the minutes fly by across our time zones.

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