Poem read at the Flenniken Landing Residents' Inaugural Art Show July 31, 2018.
By Marilyn Kallet
Saying Goodbye
We embraced, there in the parking lot
of the ordinary.
How could I know your arms were arguing last things?
Your cheek in my hair.
For a moment, I pressed against you. Goodbyes can be vast.
In a breath, we traded lives. I didn’t know you
were a cliff I had reached the edge of.
Your touch echoed.
I simply followed it like song.
Poem is from Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press, 2009.