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| 43 | 43 | ||
| 44 | </header> | 44 | </header> |
| 45 | 45 | ||
| 46 | <section class="content verse"> | 46 | <div class="ekphrastic"> |
| 47 | <figure> | 47 | <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death"> |
| 48 | <img src="img/gould.png" alt="Philip Gould" /><figcaption>Philip Gould</figcaption> | 48 | <img src="img/gould.png" |
| 49 | </figure> | 49 | title="Philip Gould" |
| 50 | <p>When I think of death I think<br />of Peter Falk in <em>The Princess Bride</em> patting<br /><a href="creation-myth.html">his pockets</a> as he leaves the room</p> | 50 | alt="Philip Gould" |
| 51 | <p>Life is a series of doors or so<br />they say but I ask them this<br />where does that last door lead?</p> | 51 | /> |
| 52 | <p>For Falk maybe it leads backstage<br />a black-walled catered affair with stage<br />lights slowly baking stale muffins</p> | 52 | </a> |
| 53 | <p><a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">Sweaty cheese</a> leaking onto dried-out<br />grapes a chocolate fountain clogged<br />by some errant strawberry crown</p> | 53 | </div> |
| 54 | <p>but this is not where it leads for you or<br />for me that door opens onto darkness marked<br />only by a trellis or the lid of a casket</p> | 54 | |
| 55 | <p>the door of the <a href="about-the-author.html">earth’s womb</a> opening<br />finally to accept us and with us the dirt<br />not to grow more strawberries for Falk</p> | 55 | <section class="content verse"><p>When I think of death I think<br />of Peter Falk in <em>The Princess Bride</em> patting<br /><a href="creation-myth.html">his pockets</a> as he leaves the room</p> |
| 56 | <p>but to pad his feet as he walks overhead<br />to visit someone he certainly cares about<br />but whose name is lost to posterity.</p> | 56 | <p>Life is a series of doors or so<br />they say but I ask them this<br />where does that last door lead?</p> |
| 57 | </section> | 57 | <p>For Falk maybe it leads backstage<br />a black-walled catered affair with stage<br />lights slowly baking stale muffins</p> |
| 58 | <p><a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">Sweaty cheese</a> leaking onto dried-out<br />grapes a chocolate fountain clogged<br />by some errant strawberry crown</p> | ||
| 59 | <p>but this is not where it leads for you or<br />for me that door opens onto darkness marked<br />only by a trellis or the lid of a casket</p> | ||
| 60 | <p>the door of the <a href="about-the-author.html">earth’s womb</a> opening<br />finally to accept us and with us the dirt<br />not to grow more strawberries for Falk</p> | ||
| 61 | <p>but to pad his feet as he walks overhead<br />to visit someone he certainly cares about<br />but whose name is lost to posterity.</p></section> | ||
| 58 | </article> | 62 | </article> |
| 59 | <nav> | 63 | <nav> |
| 60 | <a class="prevlink" href="exasperated.html" | 64 | <a class="prevlink" href="exasperated.html" |