I'll go into the possible inspiration later for this poem she posted today for now she is once more delving into the concept of a row isolation and the struggle to retain strength during several years of adversity
her geography is located next to a river named after Henry Hudson as she draws on an important metaphor for life as she lives it similar to an earlier poem that had her kneeling beside the sea in order to let things go, she can no longer retain in her life
the wide Hudson with its never ending ripples sits on her doorstep a safe place she goes to breathe new life into her war worn bones and hot raw nerves she goes to the river side to keep from bursting what she is full to spilling and to avoid leaking out and wasting the essence of survival she cannot afford to lose
the last few years she says have been truly deep and rough like the storms that rip across the river at times I'm strong she writes but sometimes I'm tired on the shore she watches the ships that sail side by side on the river alluding to them as if they might be lovers holding hands or each other making her once more conscious of how much alone she is
these visions of passing ships sometimes make or sole lake she appears to be thinking of a particular person whose face she sees is reflected in the water the face could be her own but more likely however the face is a person about whom and two cool she has been writing following a similar theme as raised in her book seated beside the sea and letting go of something she clearly cares deeply about yet must release or at best cannot keep hold of
she sees his eyes and they become one and then she lets go ending something at least in her mind at least for the moment and a kind of ceremony in which takes the place on the shores of what to her seems to have become a holy place of river upon which life continues to flow and there is a feeling that she watches a part of her life passing moving away from her like the ships only instead of two ships sailing together she implies each one now must go his her or own way
The Who or why are not revealed but this all comes at a time when her world is shaking the virgin mayors looming trial and perhaps even more significant the cancer that plagues her as well as the man, she may have given it to as well and she settles besides the river looking for redemption rebirth and perhaps healing
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