The Alchemy of Happiness by Marilyn Bowering

Author:Marilyn Bowering
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE000000, POE011000
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2002-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

October 31:

John, my old friend, and I

used to talk

about his life

above the sea

at the mouth of

a cave in Crete.

I slipped his worry beads

through my fingers

the night we walked all the way down

Alma from the UBC dance and sat, over coffee,

and he told me about the time, as a child, he believed

he’d been left behind in the Rapture, spent days, alone

in the woods, abandoned by God.

(When I lived, later, in Greece,

I used to see him like a dream, like the vapour

that streams from an icebox,

when I walked the chamomile- and thyme-scented hills.)

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