They’re Always Leaving

Our lives. So surprisingly frail, delicate, unpredictable. The slightest turbulence affects our core, our centrality, can create such chaos. We try to, need to, maintain stability, certainty, but people who we care deeply about are always leaving. Challenging our ability to maintain balance, constancy, harmony. And without this our capability to adapt, function, survive is diminished.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Strange Curiosity of Memory is my sixth book of poems and the first to contain my photographs. Those selected come from a recent series of reinterpretations of surface reflections, with all but one involving water.

Many of the poems consider aspects of memory and life transitions. Others contemplate topics such as love, separation, personal aspiration and obligation, and identity. Several are very deeply felt and were, candidly, a challenge to write. As always some are musings, complete inventions, while others stem from observed or personal experience.

I do hope that you find enjoyment within.

- Arthur Robert Goshin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Arthur R. Goshin first began writing poetry as he turned sixty. Educated as a physician and in public health, he’s had a forty year health care career, first developing health centers based in communities of poverty, then developing and managing large not-for-profit health care programs. He currently serves as a board chair, board member or advisor for a range of entities including private companies, organizations, foundations and academic institutions. As he retired from ‘employed work’ (as he puts it) and began writing poetry, he also became the founder/funder/president/ceo of his own foundation (www.healthyworldfoundation.org) engaged in numerous health projects in Uganda and India. ‘Art’ splits his living time between Buffalo, New York City and Santa Fe with his wife Renée.