Joel Savishinsky
Inches and Far Away
Only inches yet far away,
when she places her cup down,
the firm clink of china
holds my mother's thoughts.
Bio
Joel Savishinsky is a retired anthropologist, gerontologist, recovering academic and unrepentant activist. A researcher in the Arctic, India, the US, England and the Caribbean, his Breaking The Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America won the Gerontology Society of America's annual book prize; his poetry has appeared in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, The Avocet, The Berkshire Review, Blood and Thunder, Crosscurrents, The New York Times, PageBoy, Passager Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Starfish, The Pharos, Third Eye, Windfall, and Xanadu.