for Rochelle Ratner, 1948-2008
Although his mother died almost one year ago, the editor hasn't yet erased her number from his phone. As if her immortality depends on him. His mother. But he never even met Rochelle. Except in these cyberpages. She doesn't need him. Great poets, he knows, survive in their words and lines, books and archives. But he will not soon be able to cut the links to her site or to her blog. Her poems, of course, are beyond anyone's control. They are here; they are everywhere.
James Penha edits The New Verse News.
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