Stripping away the layers
let's start with the luggage
then the home
then the language
stripping away the layers
let's continue with the cash
then the food
then the health
stripping away the layers
the friends who never showed up
the weather that turned bad
at the heart of this
all this...
Gina, your poetry is amazing--it speaks with a depth and subtlety capable of transporting one to another realm.
ReplyDelete"Layers" was the first poem I read; I found it an inviting, guiding poem ("Let's start with.../then...") to the effect that I found myself as the 'voice'--a voice that steered thought in an elusive direction, to an elusive line ("At the heart of this/ All this...").