Terry Trowbridge

Canadian poet Terry Trowbridge has appeared in Corporeal before. He is grateful to the OAC for writing grants.

Easy read of the poems in the images above:

Vanity, Femurs and Fears

I want to leave my femurs

to my kid, who practices drum set

for at least an hour a day.

My kid’s pile of broken drumsticks

makes me reluctant.

However, if they were less dedicated to breaking sticks,

I would not consider the heirloom value.

And if they were less dedicated to the drumming,

the broken sticks making a charnel house of a basement,

I would not have thought of this gift.

My reluctance is my own vanity

bringing uncertainty to my estate

and paradox to my parenting,

challenging my ego’s acceptance of death

and extending my fear of injuries beyond a coda

yet to be composed.