Judy Clarence
Loss
To water, re-water
the long-dead plant,
to prod the still spider
in the dripping shower stall,
to see the fallen spire
re-emerge against the clouds,
to wonder who's under
the cemetery stones—
all are measurements of hope
that what's gone is not really
gone, just waiting for the flood,
the flash, the movement back,
ahead, to sometime,
some time, any time but now.
Bio
Judy Clarence is a newly re-emerging poet. Now retired from a career as an academic librarian, she has time again, after years of writing constantly but scattering her work in various folders and drawers throughout her house, to put her poetry out into the world. She also plays classical (primarily baroque) violin. Judy lives in Penn Valley, California, in the Sierra foothills with her daughter and her family.