Bridges Mathart Poetry

The COVID-19 crisis has put the kibosh on the Bridges mathart conference but in its place, Sarah Glaz has put together a wonderful program of Bridges Mathart poet videos. I was going to write a nice post about this compilation but JoAnne Growney has done such a wonderful job - I will just share a link to her blog.

https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2020/07/math-poetry-for-virtual-bridges.html

By the way, I have a video in the compilation as well.
Thank you, Sarah!

Video of Dementia

A new work stemming from my poem Dementia
Video Martyna Kita
Music by Marcin Maślanka

Dementia

My father passed ... gone
and within his wake
my mother took up residence, with an
obscured assassin.

Immune he is protected in her house
the darkest of nights

unbeknownst to her
he's carving her brain a sliver a day

ingesting it ... smiles
content with arrogant entitlement.
Belching from his bowels
the pieces of her sweet identity
fluttering away with the morning sun
waiting ... father collects them in his heart
like cupid's quivers.

My sibling and I are wringing our hands
circling this vortex with drowning child ...

She is ninety-four going on fourteen
with anachronistic vanity she
fluffs her naturally charcoal grey hair
Oh yes - oh no! Does my lipstick look right?

The current state of morning
at my parent's lonely bed