Bonnie Thurston's Forgotten Futures: a memoir is a tender heart's cry
and a passionate celebration in one. There is deep poignancy and longing
here, but not a mawkish or maudlin word. We travel in two landscapes --
the world inhabited with wonder for each small detail, and the internal
world of half a couple, observing both the relationship's moments of
grace, joy and intimacy and those of wounding, longing and loss. In
supple, accessible language, honed to beauty, these poems resonate with
a sense of the sacredness of small things and the transforming power of
memory.
'When Love Is Passed'
When love is passed to you
on a bone china plate
like Petits Fours on a doily,
accept with gratitude.
Life holds enough
awful, heavy crockery,
and we have all eaten
more than our share of sand.