07 May Poets’ Corner: Feela for Mother’s Day!
Fun facts about Mother’s Day from online sources, this year Sunday, May 10:
• More phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year, with phone traffic spiking by as much as 37 percent.
• Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year for restaurants in America, with brunch being the most popular meal. More than 120 million cards are sent each year.
• A colored carnation means that a person’s mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person’s mother is deceased.
• According to one estimate, the various tasks moms perform at home would be worth $145,235 a year in the professional world.
• About 75% of US consumers plan to give flowers; 74% plan to give cards to their mothers.
Mothering cakes. Flowers. Chocolate. Things in big boxes. Things in small boxes (even better). Telluride Inside… and Out offers a simple tribute to mom’s everywhere in the form of a poignant poem by regular contributor David Feela.
David Feela, courtesy Amazon.
Grandmother’s Hiatus
In the mirror my grandmother showed me
how beautifully her silver hair
complemented my blue eyes.
The bathroom was small
so she let me stand on the stool,
draping her waist-long hair
like a shawl about my shoulders
and then pulling me tight.
She said I would make a good-looking
old person, and we both laughed,
wrinkles erupting where such seriousness
usually ran smooth. She held me there
against her thin bony breast, hands folded
across my own shapeless chest.
We might have merged into one
if not for my mother
knocking so suddenly on the door.
David Feela, more:
David Feela’s latest book is “Feelasophy: Selected Essays.”
The work is a collection of about 70 essays Feela penned over the past decade for local and regional publications throughout the Mountain West and beyond.
Rather than dense academic philosophy, signature Feela offers up personal, observant, witty reflections on life’s absurdities and delights.
“Feelasophy: Selected Essays” follows earlier works including poetry collections and a previous essay volume (“How Delicate These Arches,” 2011).
“Feelasophy” is Feela’s fifth book overall and his latest major work, described by critics as “funny, poignant and rich with meaning.”
Find it at http://davidfeela.com
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