WAITING FOR CHARON • by Katherine Parker Richmond

Bones 
              languish in marrowless life 
veins 
             yield no willing blood 
skin 
            drapes in translucent empty folds 

clothed in despair of love outlived 
she has eulogized her hope 
buried it, can no longer mourn. 

Katherine Parker Richmond lives in a big red ramshackle house in Ellensburg, Washington, with her husband, son, daughter and two long-suffering cats. Her poem “Stardust and Solace” will be appearing in the fall 2009 issue of Boston Literary Magazine.

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Posted on January 15, 2010 in Other
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3 Responses to “WAITING FOR CHARON • by Katherine Parker Richmond”


  1. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    January 15th, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Some of the trope in this poem need reworking. Bones “languish”? If this poem is the “eulogy,” is it buried? But still, it’s a good poem. Katherine has evoked an entity, felt and understood. A little more work and it would be perceptably finer.

  2. sjhigbee Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 7:26 am

    Poignant and powerful evocation of grief… Well done.

  3. Nancy Wilcox Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    How very hopeless, dry, down. Very effective writing indeed.

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