In this section: 26 poems, 7 photos
LOVING LIBERTY
Her loves her,
Liberty.
He really loves her.
She’s old,
Liberty.
Really old.
But something
went wrong with
Liberty’s back right leg.
To save the hind leg,
they had to cut off
two toes.
This old dog Liberty
had to learn new tricks.
Now she limps,
Liberty,
mostly around the house
arranged carefully
just for her. . .
by the man who loves her.
Loves Liberty
more than anything.
Even though she limps
on her last legs.
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Rhonda Esakov is a sister member of Story Circle Network. I met her when we both belonged to an SCN online support group. You can read her Story Circle Network reviews online. She’s kindly responded to my call for April poems. Here’s her introduction to “The Sparrow,” which she refers to as “my little novice…
Don’t miss the recording of our tele-seminar at Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler’s Women’s Memoirs site as they feature our teleseminar conversation on Memoir Moments. Kendra and Matilda introduce the recording like this: If you missed our informative conversation with Janet Grace Riehl, author of the memoir CD called Sightlines: A Family Love Story in…