Photograph © 1997 Valentin Grigore.
VIEWING THE COMET
(for Mother)
The day before your funeral, as I bath my son,
I tell him. "Tomorrow we are saying goodbye
to Grandma; — she is going away
to meet and be with Jesus."
The knock on the door is our neighbour’s child
hoping to borrow binoculars which we lost years ago.
She points out the Hale-Bopp comet, bright in the Northern
sky, visible even above the city lights.
Because of the biting wind, I return indoors
to dry my son and my eyes.
© Gerald England
Composed: Gee Cross, 26th March 1997
Publications
1997 The Pink Cadillac Review (Internet)
1998 LIMBO TIME (Hyde, New Hope International)
1998 Aireings (UK)
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)
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