bookgaga , 10 days ago

"This morning before daybreak a thunderstorm

In the last hours before her death
her enemies came. A raccoon, that storm,
the FedEx truck manned by a gentle woman
who'd recently lost her own dog."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #VerseThursday
Stella by Michael Ondaatje from A Year of Last Things (2024 McClelland & Stewart) https://tinyurl.com/2xcx9z9n

Airedale Mavis (with her rubber chicken Trudy in the background) sits on the concrete floor before a notebook with a handwritten transcription of the poem "Stella" from the poetry collection A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje