Accommodations by Sarah Carey
Accommodations by Sarah Carey,
Tillamook, Oregon: Concrete Wolf, 2019
My mother’s celebration of life was today, so
of course I wanted to turn my attention to something both gentle and deserving.
I could not have chosen a better selection than Sarah Carey’s lovely chapbook, Accommodations.
Named to the Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook
Award Series and published in 2019, Carey’s book deals with family and loss.
It’s largely a sorrowful work, but sometimes sorrowful words provide the
comfort and connection we need.
Almost every poem in the book calculates some
sort of pain, usually the pain of losing someone. But some address other
losses, as the marvelous list poem “What We Carry” demonstrates:
Some things we took for granted vanished
long ago: a store, a mall, a whole shopping
plaza
an entire country we grew up in, moving
state to state, when welcome signs
marked the borders, and no one spoke
of red and blue intent …
This is a recognizable grief; it seems that at
one point there was a country that looked like the one Carey describes.
Today, I was especially moved by “We Gather in
Florida to Celebrate My Father’s Life” and its profoundly beautiful ending:
My father is salt and mineral, crushed bone.
We arrange to arrange to arrange.
Did you know, I told the
gathered group,
flowers from each state he lived in
flank the pulpit,
bloom today in all of them, in all of
you:
dogwood, peony, forget-me-not.
Carey gets mourning exactly right here, and I’m struck by
the translation of the father into salt and mineral. We’ll all get there eventually;
my mom got there today, and I was glad for Sarah’s company as I dealt with that
hard fact.
Carey presents one beautiful poem after another in this
gorgeous, painful, but just-right collection, which I highly recommend.
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