Memory – Grandpa Louis
Eleonore Blaurock-Busch, PhD
Hersbruck, Germany
Poet’s statement: Poetry allows us to summarize human and world issues in condensed lines and emotion. By condensing, we focus on that which we consider important.
Memory
He is old now, my older brother. I suppose he thought of fucking I was terrorized by his probing, I can assure him I have forgiven, |
Photography by Linus Bohman |
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Grandpa Louis
Decades ago, Each Sunday, I waited I watched in awe, while Grandpa Before entering his sanctuary, I waited, First time I stepped over the treasured threshold I never liked the darkness Ladies hung on walls, waiting for restoration, He took his time I quietly entered sandstone churches His light! Brushes and words he selected with care. I focused hard |
ELEONORE BLAUROCK-BUSCH, PhD is laboratory director and researcher at Micro Trace Minerals Laboratory in Germany (formerly Trace Minerals International of Boulder, Colorado, USA). She is scientific advisor to the German Medical Association of Clinical Metal Toxicology and the International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology (IBCMT). She has published many research articles and authored several books. She continues to study creative writing at Oxford University. Some of her poems have recently been published in The Mitre Literary Magazine.
Highlighted in Frontispiece Spring 2012 – Volume 4, Issue 2
Spring 2012 | Hektorama | Poetry