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Beneath the parlor window
on the pine floor, a box sits
brimming with its cache
of jubilation—each cork marked
with a date. Reunions, graduations,
anniversaries, birthdays—tangible
long after the misty pop
and delicate fizz of champagne
on the tongue has gone.
So buoyant, I feel them rise
to follow as I cross the porch
to walk the steep path
that leads to the edge of the lake
where memories linger, thick and fragrant
as the grapes of the surrounding hills.
From Faith to See and Other Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2007.)
This poem first appeared in The River.
Used here with the author’s permission.
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Kathe L. Palka lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and writes in both Japanese forms and free verse. Her short tanka collection, As the Years Pass, won an eChapbook Award from Snapshot Press in 2011. In 2015, Red Moon Press published A Path of Desire, a book of tan renga written by Kathe and poet Peter Newton. Two poems from her long form collection, Miracle of the Wine (Grayson Books, 2012), were featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Kathe is a member of the Haiku Poets of the Garden State and has been involved in the presentation of haiku for their yearly April haiku sign installation at the New Jersey Botanical Garden in Ringwood, New Jersey since its inception in 2018. She has co-edited the online micro poetry journal tinywords.com together with Peter Newton since 2012. Kathe is currently at work on a manuscript in Japanese forms. Learn more about her at her Haiku Foundation web page.
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69Dorcas:
Thick and fragrant memories, full of reflection. I like it.
Posted 12/31/2011 04:12 PM
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dotief@comcast.net:
Very nice! Wonderful imagery!
Posted 12/31/2011 08:12 AM
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