Footnotes: Poems of Loss the Passage of Time and Mortality

A yellow plate and plastic fork In trash-bag tossed Tell nothing of the past nor herBrief life now lost.Instead a few sweet crumbs uponThe plate remain Remnants of what no longer is.We share the pain.-from Crumbs on a Yellow PlateIn Footnotes Hamilton area author and poet David J. Forsyth presents a lifetimes worth of poems many of them dealing with the theme of human mortality. Forsyth has appended a brief footnote to each poem recalling the circumstances of its creation and the challenges that he faced in writing it. The result is a collection that both readers of poetry and practising poets themselves will cherish.