What offerings can we make for the dead
at our table of bounty and empty chairs?
When flickering candles fill us with dread,
What offerings can we make for the dead?
In this home where we once broke bread,
food grows cold on napkins stained with tears.
What offerings can we make for the dead
at our table of bounty and empty chairs?
Geoffrey Philp
Geoffrey Philp, a recipient of a Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica, is the author of “Archipelagos,” a book of poems about climate change, which has been longlisted for the Laurel Prize. Philp’s graphic novel for children, “My Name is Marcus,” will be published later this year. He is working on a children’s book about climate change, “Marsha, the Mangrove Guardian.”
