CONSEQUENCES

 

CONSEQUENCES

 

Setting out to write

you about the book

you sent me

by Isabel Wilkerson

on Caste

and discontent

and I underlined

some things on page 306

telomeres

cell damage

from exposure

to social

inequity

weathering

writing this

in the margins

of the book

I sat down

to write it out

and that's how

this poem

about your hand-made

earings for Karen

emerged

and I do want

to say how

delighted

we are

I guess

this skinny poem

is a book mark

 

jim

3-8 september 2020