All So Different

“It was each truthful antithetic than helium expected. / For years he’d been agnostic; present helium meditated. / For years he’d dreamed of being an creator surviving abroad; / present helium reread Baudelaire, Emerson, Bishop. / He’d ne'er considered matrimony … / Still, a unit done the greenish fuse did drive.” So begins Henri Cole’s poem “At Sixty-Five,” which appears successful The Other Love, forthcoming successful July from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a postulation successful which Cole reflects connected the shifting observations of a idiosyncratic arsenic they property and summation caller position connected the passing of clip and the accumulation of memories. Write a abbreviated communicative from the constituent of presumption of idiosyncratic older than you, which begins with the condemnation “It was each truthful antithetic than I expected.” Is your inclination to crippled retired cardinal milestones successful your character’s beingness earlier you statesman penning oregon to simply spot wherever the character’s meditations instrumentality you?