All That’s Missing
I would ask her, where is it known
better than in the hollows of dying
cherry trees, what can be as good
as gone – to not have returned to us
too quickly what has been lifted as we
moved lightly through crowds in a park,
as we spoke, distracted by friends?
She might say, what can grow
as sweet on time as things unreturned,
a blue leather wallet, all its photos and I.D.,
twenty-seven years and more gone –
almost never found – and the promise
they hold that you are already waiting
where you’d hoped someday to return?
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TREE'S SWEET 'FRUIT' WALLET SWIPED IN '82 By PHILIP MESSING It's not quite money growing on trees, but it's awfully close. A woman whose wallet was swiped in Central Park 27 years ago got a blast from the past when it was discovered last week stuffed inside the hollow of a dying cherry tree. "I remember it like it was yesterday," said Upper East Side resident Ruth Bendik, 69, referring to Oct. 24, 1982, when her wallet was snatched as she watched the New York City Marathon. "I was in the park, walking over to greet the runners after they finished, and I was in a crush of people, and all of a sudden, I realized my purse felt very light." The wallet was found Tuesday by Josh Galiley, 32, a tree-care supervisor for the Central Park Conser vancy, after he took down a dying black cherry tree near Rumsey Playfield at East 72nd Street. You can read the rest here if you'd like: [link] For whatever reason, every time I read this article the first thought out of my head is that old wedding day rhyme: "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." (but that's a different poem) Dave Prisk |
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My own grandmother lost an onyx ring with a single diamond in the middle out in the yard when she was younger...found it years and years later. How did it survive mowers, etc.? Just weird. ^^
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i'm a million different people from one day to the next.
where is it known
better than in the hollows of dying
cherry trees, what can be as good
as gone
What a beautiful way to couch your concept. And it seems so strangely true of life, that such odd almost arbitrary things as lost wallets in dying cherry trees could hold be taken to hold so much meaning, could symbolise such human hopings for unlikely, almost forgotten things.
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'Beauty will save the world'
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
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'Beauty will save the world'
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
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She thinks now, because she cannot be sure, but that plastic bag must have sailed away, forgotten, with the fuel leak that trailed a dark rainbow behind the whir of the big boat’s engine.
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-"I'll tell you," she said in the same huried passionate wisper, "What real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belife aginst yourself and aginst the whole world, giveing up your hole heart and soul
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Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. - Anne Michaels citing a Hebrew saying.
Fear is regularly overrated.
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