On Borrowed Time

by Goodman, Naomi

• ISBN13: 9781564744517
• ISBN10: 1564744515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub

Table of Contents

Loss
The Country of Old Age	13	(1)
Our Neighbors for Eternity	14	(2)
I Know So Many People	16	(1)
For Later Friendship	17	(1)
We Segregate Our Dead from the Living	18	(1)
We Jews Bury Our Dead Quickly	19	(1)
Firmly, Folk Wisdom Tells Us	20	(2)
We Left the Grave---the Legend Had Begun	22	(2)
Where Will the Gossip Go?	24	(1)
So Many Friends	25	(1)
The One Who Dies First Is Fortunate	26	(1)
She Was the Perfect Old Lady	27	(1)
Slowly, Carefully	28	(1)
The Smile of Complicity	29	(1)
We're Told the Phantom Limb Still Pains	30	(1)
All Else Is Transitory	31	(1)
When I Was Young and Grown-ups Said	32	(1)
Our Family Procession to Bury Alice	33	(1)
We Are All on Borrowed Time	34	(1)
The Jahrzeit Candle Still Flickers	35	(4)
Mother
At Ninety-three, She Still	39	(1)
Like the Duchess, She Could Find the Moral	40	(1)
My Nurse Was My Nurturer	41	(1)
Since Her Death Last Month	42	(2)
Relaxed, Relieved, Free of My Anxious	44	(1)
I Dreamt My Mother Was Alive	45	(1)
Our Mother Regarded Mother's Day	46	(3)
Self
Husband Was a Term I Never Used	49	(1)
If I Wore Black and Veiled My Face	50	(1)
Time Passed, but Unreality Returned	51	(1)
Never Old While He Was Alive	52	(1)
We Are a Silent Sisterhood	53	(1)
Never Did I Think It Would Be Like This	54	(1)
Your Anxieties Now Are Mine	55	(4)
Unexpected
What I Expected Was	59	(1)
Women Must Live Longer	60	(1)
In My Elderly Skin	61	(1)
A Saint Sat in Our Living Room	62	(1)
My Opaqued Lens Has Been Excised	63	(1)
My Second Lens Has Been Removed	64	(1)
A New Century Has Crept in	65	(1)
A Great Bird Carries Me	66	(3)
Void
My Dead Are Crowding Me	69	(1)
Everything Reminds Me of Someone	70	(1)
I Have Flown Above the Earth	71	(1)
In the Heady Seventies of the Women's Movement	72	(1)
My Younger Self Was Very Strong	73	(1)
There Is No One Picture, No Final Image	74	(1)
He Was No Longer His Human Self	75	(1)
The Dead Have No More Privacy	76	(1)
I Pray That I Do Not Outlive My Self	77	(1)
In the Graveyard We Will Lie	78