Moorings, the fourteenth collection from award-winning poet Christopher Levenson, is a profound meditation on loss and ageing. " It is an intricate business, growing old," posits the speaker in the titular poem. " Though I once had a photographic memory," the poet reminisces, " those negatives are lost, and will not develop." Time and old age make room for loss, but so does greed-- " with time language disintegrates... lost to dementia ... speech...
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