A Life in Short Pieces

I am currently in the final stages of completing my novel About Alice. This is the first of three short novels with the overall title Lifespan which will cover the years between 1941 to the year 2000. These novels are fictional but -  not coincidentally - cover the approximate to my own lifespan.

This is not a new idea for me. A few years ago I published a short book of very short pieces – let’s not call them poems - about elements in my own life. I published this small book and it is still I think on Amazon. I have revisited these pieces and, I hope made them sharper and more precise.

I thought I might post them in an occasional series, one by one, on Life Twice Tasted for your simple enjoyment.  

From:

A Life in Short Pieces

 

 Piece One 

Beginnings

To begin anything

I must bring about

the end of earlier things.

Conception is the end

of one of their

in the beginning of another.

Birth is an end

of a secret affair

and the beginning

of love out there

in the open,

lasting a lifetime

And so on, scrawling back to Eve -

and even she engendered

the end of Adam’s spare rib.

2013 and 2018