The
Tremor
for
Liza and Maggie
A daughter goes off
to school sensing
she is entering the end
of one phase of her life
soon to begin another.
Her mother stands
at her side amazed
at what her daughter
has become and will
become even more.
A tremor of love
passes between them
like the pitch of a tuning
fork whose sound waves
displace the silence
in their opening ears.
—by Norbert Krapf
—by Norbert Krapf
Bio:
Norbert Krapf, a Jasper, Indiana, native, was Indiana Poet Laureate 2008-10,
received a Glick Indiana Author Award 2014 (Regional), and held a Creative
Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis 2011-12 to combine
poetry and the blues. His latest of 11 poetry collections is Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet's Journal of
Healing (ACTA Publications, In Extenso Imprint, 2015). He collaborates with
bluesman Gordon Bonham.