For Every Tatter

Description

In memorable lines of lyrical poetry, Christine Boldt speaks as a passionate

woman who ponders love and joy and confronts suffering, aging, and death. She

reflects openly on the achingly difficult:

A woman whose very last forebear has died

Is a woman without a tether.

But mostly she affirms a passion for living:

"When was the first time you did something

for the last time?" The question stopped me cold.

Even though, in this life, with its crises

and crazies, I might be tempted to yearn

for the very last time I will do a first thing,

I am filled with greed to have another

last time, and then, again, one more.