7/29/1959 – 7/31/2025
Lawrence
Mary Wharff, Lawrence fiction writer, poet, singer-songwriter, printmaker, mosaicist, teacher, wife, sibling, aunt, and friend to human and animal alike, passed away on the morning of Wednesday, July 31.
if you could hear in my shoes you would see
the way i feel on an autumn morning when the sky
is a blue there are no words for. if humans could make
this color blue we would be god. and you would not
need to listen to my tastes and feel my view and see
my scents. the in would be out the out in and shoes
unnecessary. and you would taste the coffee on
my toes and smell the socks on my tongue and see
the stroke of this blue on the inner of my outer. if you
could hear this blue you would know the reason
chocolate is most luscious dark and milk is most luscious
creamy and music is most luscious when the sound feels your
bones and hushes your eyes with the water of your soul, salt to
salt to salt to salt. if you could hear what i see we would be the
blue above the treetops, beyond our deaf and blurry reach.
—Mary G. Wharff
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