PHYLLIS BECK KATZ, POET
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POEMS/ Looking Back

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Looking Back

We Long to repossess our lives’ epiphanies,
to recreate our first encounter
with Chartre’s brilliant blue,
stand again beneath the Parthenon,
or climb Mt. Washington
on a perfect day,
but looking back is dangerous,
its joys paired with pain:
a long, last walk in a house
we loved and had to leave,
footsteps echoing through silent, empty rooms,
a laugh that sounds like some 
we held dear, now gone.
So Lot’s wife, looking back, was turned to salt.


All Roads Go Where They Will, 2010

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