The Laugh with the Lilt
Dr. Jannette Goddard-Finegold, 1948 – 2019
Fifty years
since we spoke
since we laughed together
We planned to meet again.
I read her poetry
She read mine
She died last Sunday.
My parents are gone,
a sister, a wife
those others
I guarded with my skill
but could not save
and Denise
her brilliance, her quickness
her kindness
and that delighted laugh
at her own work
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me,
and Why.
1973 Reading — Denise Levertov
Don Krieger is a biomedical researcher living in Pittsburgh, PA. His poetry has appeared online in Uppagus Magazine, Entropy, Tuck, Vox Populi Sphere, and others, in print in Hanging Loose (1972) and Neurology, and in several print anthologies including in both English and Farsi in Soodabeh Saeidnia’s Persian Sugar in English Tea, Volumes I and III.
