From Here to There by
Terry Ann Carter, Philomene Kocher, and Michael Dylan Welch
First published in Frogpond 40:3, Autumn 2017, page 39. Originally written 15 May
2008 in Nepean, Ontario, in Terry Ann’s library at her home on Stinson Avenue.
mountain retreat—
he tells me
of his broken heart Terry Ann
the carpenter steps over
the missing rung Philomene
Rhine
cruise—
the
cellist continues
on his
remaining strings Michael
all the way from Ireland
the cracked dishes Terry Ann
buds
on the fallen crabapple
branch
blocking the sidewalk Philomene
the broken spines
of all her travel books Michael
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