Footnotes: Poems of Loss, the Passage of Time and Mortality

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A yellow plate and plastic fork,

In trash-bag tossed,

Tell nothing of the past nor her

Brief life, now lost.

Instead a few sweet crumbs upon

The plate remain,

Remnants of what no longer is.

We share the pain.

-from Crumbs on a Yellow Plate

In Footnotes, Hamilton area author and poet David J. Forsyth presents a lifetime’s worth of poems, many of them dealing with the theme of human mortality. Forsyth has appended a brief footnote to each poem, recalling the circumstances of its creation and the challenges that he faced in writing it. The result is a collection that both readers of poetry and practising poets themselves will cherish.