She is mostly blind with occasional bursts of light but mostly darkness. But every day she goes out for dinner. I help her lift herself into the car, connect her seat belt, smooth her purple cashmere scarf over her shoulders. Today I take to her favorite bistro my arm around her, maneuvering the walker to […]
Steven Luria Ablon
Steven Luria Ablon, poet and adult and child psychoanalyst, teaches child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and publishes widely in academic journals. He won Academy of American Poets' Prize 1961 and the National Library of Poetry, Editor’s Choice Award 1994. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines. His collections of poetry are Tornado Weather (Mellen Poetry Press, Lewiston, New York, 1993), Flying Over Tasmania (The Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1997), Blue Damsels (Peter E Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2005), Night Call (Plain View press, Austin, Texas, 2011}, and Dinner in the Garden (Columbia, South Carolina, 2018).