Moon Crossing Bridge (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Tess Bond
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Memory, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Emotions, Cancer, Pain, Divorce, Death or dying, Life and death, Moths
The spaces closest to the edges of life are mysterious and powerful. A mother puts a newborn son into his crib after he has fallen asleep in her arms. As he lies quietly, she catches a quicksilver glimpse of the life that will unfold before him, a joyful sense of all-possibilities coupled with an incongruous certainty more appropriate for the end of something than for its beginning.
It is of an ending that Gallagher writes, yet one that continues to vibrate with unlimited potential. Mourning the death of her husband, she is “not quite empty enough to believe he’s gone,”...
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