Upon the cooling of the Sun
By Anthony Wade
Death has defeated a woman,
sibling, wife, mother, grandmother,
my beloved friend,
and now I watch for the signs
of the family bonds weakening,
for it was the force of this woman’s gravity
that held them all in their allotted orbits,
and with the implosion of their solar star
the bodies will fly off,
each on their centrifugal paths,
large and small,
in their turn,
and I listen and wait
for the silence to shout,
this family lives no more.
Anthony Wade, London-born, raised by a deserted migrant Irish mother; knew poverty and prejudice. Thankfully, education, available and firmly grasped, brought university and a profession. Worked long in The Netherlands before a medical disability eventually brought him Home to his Mother’s county close to where he had spent childhood summers. Joined the local writers’ group in 2016, published his first poem in 2018, a Forward Prize nominee with poetry published in Ireland, across Britain, India, Spain, the USA, and Canada. He can’t stop writing poetry.