How do you deal
with what many insurance companies rather blandly call “major life events,” those
significant happenings that allow you to change your insurance policies? We
know what they mean – the death of a spouse, parent, or child; a divorce; a new
baby.
But many other
life events can be called major and significant – a physical move to a new
home, new part of the country, or even a new country; a serious illness;
spouses separating; a family crisis that leads to division and walls; perhaps
even a spouse changing his or her philosophy of life – the one you’ve known for
years, the one that’s helped to anchor you as well as your spouse. Suddenly,
and it can be sudden, life is unhinged. The ground has shifted; the landscape
has become unfamiliar.
That is the
sense of Laurie Klein’s newly
published collection of poems, Where the Sky Opens: A
Partial Cosmography. What was known as normal and established has
disappeared, sometimes within ourselves, and something new has to be recognized
and charted.
To continue
reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
Top photograph by Lynn Greyling via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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