Canadian Author & Bookman, 1979 Issue number four

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Despite I Feel So Young

Despite I feel so young
a virtual companion
to our offspring
the mapwork of my face
is runnelled deep
with entrenched rivulets
an origami craftwork
of nature's capricious
design.

And sometimes
I just cannot reconcile
the inside of me
that wellspring of youth
with the image
that stares back so
unfamiliarly
from that mirror
your eyes.

c. 1979 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Canadian Author & Bookman, Volume 55, Number 1