Connector

Moving this month to  a retirement community in a different location, I'm thankful for the work in poetry I have  been able to do at this senior complex.: workshops and my own writing, poems for a chapbook.  Advanced age is no hindrance to the connection of one's life to others through poetry.  The joy and recognition in reading long cherished work and discovering new poets is immeasurable.  At the Church Door by Louis Simpson, a favorite poet, read online, tells of an encounter with a child  entering the church as he was leaving, asking him to help her with the ladybug on her sleeve,     
                                                
                                             So I opened the door,      
                                             and she said,  "It jumped off."
                                             We stood looking around.
      
                                             "It'll be all right," I said.
                                               She went in, and I left,
                                               taking care where I stepped.  

                                                Louis Simpson
                                                 Owner of the House 
                                                  BOA  2003