Poem: Elegy for a Child Who Fell

This fallen child, whose empty eyes

mourning could not harmonize,

nor the reaching requiem

contain the wood enclosing him

slips from the circled reach of eyes

without a jolt, without surprise,

whose stuttered step has stumbled in

to words that now embroider him.

Published in Blue Unicorn magazine.

George Ellenbogen is the author of five collections of poetry and a memoir, “Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood.”