Some Cares

<p><strong>Benjamin Friedlander's first book in twelve years <em>Some Cares</em> is also his most autobiographical. Moving deftly from crude fact to abstract condition the poems document a difficult decade of eldercare and mourning of aging unease and fragmented knowledge. Of light and dark in alternation seasonal rhythm currents of feeling</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The five stages of history Isolation Barter</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Amnesia</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Denial Anger Depression</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Everything gets to happen</strong></p><p><strong>at least once hypothetically;</strong></p><p><strong>the eventual <em>will</em> occur.</strong></p><p><strong>It all comes down</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>like snow but doesn't stick My heart</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>is a cup that never fills.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>I sip from it on occasion.</strong></p>