David King Virginia Poet
David King Virginia Poet
This Side of Forever is the narrative of the loss of a wife and the accompanying grief of her spouse. On January 20, 2010, Donna King suffered a massive heart attack in her sleep. Attempts to revive her by the author and emergency medical technicians failed. In language laced withs searing, original imagery, the author relates the progress of his mourning for three months after her death. Without pandering to pity of sentiment, he traces the psychological journey from the deathbed to memories of their thirty-six-year marriage.
Sample Poems
Sample Poems
Death
Blue-tongued death,
Where is your repose
At the pounding of chest,
The forced breath of hope
Pushed through passive
Alveoli and dead bronchia,
The empty lungs and shallow
Heart there, but not there?
As I taste the last
Warm breath release
Your soul
Through limp flesh
And open, unseeing eyes,
Does death savor the tang,
Revel in the first
Taste of unlife,
Beyond our knowing?
Sacrifice
Who are these
Who come to the sacrifice,
Robed in black like
Keening,
Ventricled women, with
Boxes of magic
That are no avail?
They come so quickly,
I have bare time
To open doors and
Wait for the procession,
With no garlands or hopeful
Sprigs of green, to enter
The now tainted room
Where love is lorn,
And the blue face of death,
Whose kisses are cold and
Hard, takes you
Beyond me.
Noises
In the dead
Of night,
When
I can not sleep,
I tread the carpets
And cold tiles,
Making each noise
My familiar;
Creak of wind
At the front door;
Crack of icemaker,
Jostling hum of refrigerator,
Hiss of heat pump,
Blare of the toilet filling,
Filling until the valve
Pops closed,
All the time
Waiting to feel
Your voice
Or just
Your breath,
Behind me in the dark.
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