BRANDYWINE AT DRESHER
FOR THE LAST CHAPTER OF LIFE
Tenderly the precious body is
carted to the cemetery where
loved ones from all over America
gather in their galoshes under dark rain clouds
The land has shifted in the
one hundred ten years Lillian Moss
has been with this earth
She is only one person, small,
generous, round curious eyes
exquisitely coiffed and attired
refusing to eat - not even one York
Peppermint Pattie
eager to find out where
her journey will take her next
Back at her daughter Ada's
the storytelling begins, a five-part
Symphony of good cheer, over the spread
from Ben and Irv's, tiny sandwiches,
as if we're on a picnic, potato salad
and coleslaw, of hip fractures, arthritic fingers,
of back sprains and steroids, of insulin pumps and
people people people, old, young and in between,
the children yawning and gone upstairs to create
a ruckus, her descendants
In the life of the soul, She has not yet
arrived, traveling sans umbrella - like Chagal's
"Over the Town," where he flies with his
beloved wife Bella Rosenfeld Chagal
these women with three names like
Ada Moss Fleisher
Here for a little while
Vanishing as if they
never existed
But they did
did
did.
- Ruth Z. Deming
I emailed this to Ada and Rich as well as the Patricia Kind Family Foundation.
Click on the Foundation above - New Directions is the proud recipient of several grants - and view the founders Pat Kind and Philip Kind.
Their love reverberates in the grants they give.
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