Elegy for B, Who Dropped Dead After Dinner
Only you would exit that way, your cashmere sweater draped on a chair, a lemon you nicked in your pocket. Only you could say when you don’t spend money on yourself, people notice, and leave…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Linda Drach is a writer, public health policy analyst, and volunteer writing group facilitator for the nonprofit, Write Around Portland. Her poetry has been published in CALYX, Cathexis Northwest, Verseweavers, The Write Launch, Clackamas Literary Review, The Timberline Review, The Hole in the Head Review, and elsewhere. She is the poet laureate of a small house in Oregon, where she serves an audience of one human, one exceptionally attentive dog, and thousands of Douglas fir cones.
Only you would exit that way, your cashmere sweater draped on a chair, a lemon you nicked in your pocket. Only you could say when you don’t spend money on yourself, people notice, and leave…