The Poetry Of Middle Age
I love reading carefully crafted words which touch me deep where I live? I recently had that joy from an unlikely source: An email. But being that the email, and the poem, came from “The Borzoi Reader,” Random House’s online literature publication, I guess it is somewhat understandable. The poem is about being a woman and coming to middle age. 
The name of the poem is “Boat,” and it is by Deborah Digges. I, of course, had to research her a bit and I have all of her books on my wishlist! This is the kind of poet that makes you want to go back to college and pick up another degree - this time in literature.
The poem “Boat,” explores the feelings of facing middle-age with young mothers surrounding, in lines such as,
“Once they looked back to show me myself at fifty, frightening to them, not yet recognizable…”
The last line was, to me, absolutely breaktaking and she observed her 50+ years by considering her, “brilliant, trivial unmooring.”
“Boats” A Poem by Deborah Digges
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