Some Cares

Benjamin Friedlander's first book in twelve years, Some Cares, is also his most autobiographical. Moving deftly from crude fact to abstract condition, the poems document a difficult decade of eldercare and mourning, of aging, unease, and fragmented knowledge. Of light and dark in alternation, seasonal rhythm, currents of feeling
The five stages of history Isolation Barter
Amnesia
Denial Anger Depression
Everything gets to happen
at least once, hypothetically;
the eventual will occur.
It all comes down
like snow, but doesn't stick My heart
is a cup that never fills.
I sip from it on occasion.