What Comes Next by Jerry Durick
What Comes Next “This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived" Like a freezing person recollects the cold – I feel the hour of lead, that formal feeling come on -- the way she said it would – the careful phone call the messages, arrangements, flowers and all – my ceremonious nerves and my questioning heart as stiff as mechanical feet go about their business the wooden way of outliving this new pain and, of course, this feeling that follows me like a shadow.