From the 49th Parallel…Bellingham, Washington
So far north here, sometimes
it feels like we’re teetering
on the very edge of the Earth
and into the region the ancient maps
called Terra Incognita.
Author / Barbara Bloom
I Contemplate Change while Reading Bleak House at Galley Bay
I dip into this tale of displaced children,
orphaned, waiting on their fortunes,
this summer of my own displacement.
The house has sold, my husband tells me,
his voice hollowed out by the phone.
We have to be out in sixty days.