by Martha Kahane
Down here on earth we
have grocery stores and love
affairs, garden plots and snowstorms,
toilets and telephones. Conversations
there don’t need words at all and colors
come alive, way beyond azur, crimson
and celadon.
And the love.
Even the maddest, deepest love down here is
cardboard by comparison.
Martha Kahane is a psychologist and an avid choral singer. She misses choral singing terribly since singing in groups has become lethal. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband of forty years.