IN EVERY FOLD.

ON THE WEARING OF A LATE SON'S DOORS TEE SHIRT

I’ve worn
your Doors tee shirt.

It fitted you better
than it does me.

I remember you
wearing it
not long
before you died,
the Jim Morrison face
looking out at me
where your stomach
warmly used to be.

I wore it
in a kind
of remembrance;
a need to feel
where once
your body
snuggled up
against the cloth;
wanting to feel
the place
where you had touched,
to sense another feel
where you had been.

I didn’t want
to take it off.

It seemed another
warm embrace
of son and father,
like we did
just now and then,
less so,
for some reason,
as grown men.

I’ve worn
your Doors tee shirt.

It suited you better
than it does on me;
it hangs on me
where it hugged
you tight.

I’ll wear the tee shirt
with the Morrison features,
feel the cloth
which you once felt,
sense the touch
of you once more
in mind and heart;
believe some particle
of you may still
reside in cloth’s
worn hold,
that you
may ever be there
in every fold

Reviews

[Penlady]

I can so relate to your feelings here Terry! Oh, to be able to bring him back to you...the tenderness felt in reading of your body within the folds of his t shirt is a living thing in the reading...

[Terry Collett]

Until I began these Oliver related poems, I never wrote in the first person. Now it seems the only way. That you Penlady.

[Penlady]

Your "before" writing was full of feeling but envisioned in a way that was more in seeing others lives...the looking upon others lives and sharing how you believed the people you talked about felt and what went on with them...and you do that so well the reader always felt part of and the reader still feels part of but now part of you!

[Terry Collett]

Yes, that is right, then I was an observer of outer now it is an inner loss looking back and outward. Thank you, Penlady.

[Penlady]

Any loss of yours, dear man, could never be considered a gain for your writing audience, but your loss has opened a different window through which to view...please consider that so many are lifting prayers and hopes for your someday PEACE as they share in seeing and feeling this overwhelming experience.,,,