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An Old Wood Pile [a poem with notes]

By: Dennis Siluk

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Old skin, once held tight


Against her skeleton—


Rose no more, just draped


Loosely over unpadded flesh;


Un-tightened muscles, and tissue,


Lost its courage, no-fortitude—,


Gone are the days and years


That stood against the


Indomitable elements;


The skeleton, now a landmark


Hidden under flesh and blood


Guts and moral fiber, backbone…


Collapsed from drudgery


Time, time: cascading inside—.


Bones now leaving impressions


Accepting fate


Like tarnished silver!...


Hands look like autumn leaves


Fallen from a tree


Winter’s around the corner


The door of time is closing


Like an old wood pile


Being burnet up—


Hard to open things


Hard to do anything


Precariously balanced—


Painfully slow…

She hears my feet


Cross the room—her pale


Sweet blue eyes, flicker


Like butterflies…

Tilting her face


To catch her breath


She says:


“Who wants to live like this?”

#793 [8/11/05]

Notes by the author: “I think of myself as an old wood pile you might say, and so I use that analogy here: in my poem “An Old Wood Pile,” not out of disrespect. My mother had her mission, I was part of it. She was part of mine. I think I have learned to do one thing, if anything, in life, which is to examine it; otherwise, for me it would not be worth living. For this is where the truth of the matter is. Why do we do what we do; my mother said, “Who wants to live like this…?” and I had to make a choice for her, after she made her choice. We live in a world where most people, willing or unwilling live in a pretense, when my mother said want she said, there was no more deception for her, if there ever was any. She wanted to go to the next level, and said goodbye in her own way. As we will in time.”

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