New (Old) Poem: Jodie
2007-09-21 10:16 PM | Posted by Jogyata Dallas | Permanent Link | Personal, New Zealand, Poetry, Life
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This morning while looking for something entirely different to what I would find and sifting through a dishevelled corner of my room (here a muddle of discarded things, doodlings; a ruined volume of Sylvia Plath’s poetry, the pages tumbling free; my father’s lost letters; a slither of sepia brown antique snaps; a teddy bear holding a flattened pink parasol) I came across a faded, neatly folded sheet of paper inscribed with a poem, inside a picture of a man leading a horse through a field, a little girl clinging to the saddle. Oh, floodgates of memory! This was a farm owner I had worked for to pay my way through my studies and with whom I became good friends, the little girl his niece Jodie who died very young of leukemia. The photo touched my heart.
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