DOLO DIAZ
The Case for Writing Poetry After Fifty
There’s a lot of material.
The first aggravations of a rusting body—
the estrogen, the statins, the colonoscopies.
The mounting aches. A few heartbreaks.
The heart patched up—a botched job.
The odyssey of marriage,
the improv of parenthood.
The divorces. Old
friends with new girlfriends,
giddy love after thirty years of drought.
The farewells of those
your age—
the orphanings, the suicides, the freak accidents.
The wisdom that never
comes.
The regrets.
The memory that
slips—playfully at first.
The sounds that fade—
except for the call of
the Earth,
growing louder and louder.
Dolo Diaz is a poet with roots in Spain, currently residing in California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ONE ART, Rogue Agent, Right Hand Pointing, Star*Line, Humana Obscura, and Book of Matches, among others. She also has a debut chapbook, Defiant Devotion, which was published by Bottlecap Press.
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