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Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Learning to Calculate the Half Life (Zinka Press, 2001), the chapbook What Winter Reveals (also available from Plan B Press), the chapbook, Memory Waltz, and poems and stories that have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. Her poetry and fiction have been read on NPR and NPR affiliate KUSP. Liz lives in Pennsylvania and serves as an artist-in-residence in schools throughout the state. She is a founding partner of Around the Block Writers Collaborative. Mother to 25 year-old Erica (and about to become a mother-in-law!) and 22 year old Jesse, wife, daughter, sister, girlfriend, cat-mom, teacher and lapsed family therapist, Liz wades knee deep in the flow of everyday neighborhood life, from which she draws her inspiration.
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Necessary Turns
By Liz Abrams-Morley
December 7, 2004
So I told him something
about dogs and something
about sunflowers
and one more thing about
train tickets
and taking water.
It was a hot day and he
was leaving to his own life.
I drove.
We missed every necessary
turn -- my fault.
I was drifting
to another gone moment,
and another. Where was I?
The heat rose,
undulating -- genies
off red brick buildings we
passed only accidentally;
(he knew a back way.)
I missed more turns.
Became nervous. Still,
he made his train.
From the platform I saw it all:
how from now on he would travel great distances
and I would travel other distances.
How before the rattle of wheel
against track deafened us, he
would always tell me chill out, Mom
but would know to bend and kiss
the top of my head and so,
before heading home,
I would stop,
buy a magazine,
watch commuters careen through the station's
cool, cavernous hallways,
would think something about how
holding no ticket meant I
could be going anywhere now.
"Necessary Turns" was previously published in Free Verse and is forthcoming in the chapbook, What Winter Reveals, available soon from Plan B Press.
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