While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
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Very lovely poem early in the morning such memory of ones mother and father I like very much Michael Cochrane new poet.37242
This is a really lovely understated poem. I have just introduced a year 10 class to it and they loved it. So do I.
I have just discovered Li-Young Lee and I shall not let him go. Oh what poetry.
The images near the end of his father loving to uno his mother's hair is my favorite part of the poem.
This poem is pages from the parental diary and it is a tribute too which also speaks of Mother's Day and Father's Day and also the feelings connected with. It is a mom and dad's poem; a mom and dad's memory picitured through.