CATARAQUI RIVER MEDITATION
How did the mother duck know
The recipe for making her eggs?
And how did my own mother work
out
The 900 ingredients for the milk I drank?
How did the salmon give
directions
For finding the way home?
Would I ever learn to swallow again
After forty days of this stroke?
Then suddenly the miracle
The applesauce went down.
(On May 11 2006 I was flattened in
Kingston General Hospital for two weeks. Then I had to
learn to feed myself from a formula dripping down through a stomach tube.
I could read e-mail
and answered a few letters. I used a cane when my children and friends
took me walking by the
water. This may explain why the website went dead for so long.)