Historias de Senility

Elderly residents of an Independent Living Facility in East Tennessee look forward to a weekly breakfast where they talk loudly about Romeo and the woman that lives behind the kitchen while also discussing their world including their medications, rosemary potatoes, Peyton Manning, and new found money from their $2000 insurance hail claims.

Visiting someone you love in a nursing home is, more often than not, a humbling exercise in guilt and sorrow.

A perspective preserved in poetry, wherein stays in arrest the liberty of my mind.