Jerry Chasen's Blog

We’re moving, both home and office–and at the time this was written, we’d sold our old home and office space, and hadn’t quite gotten the new ones nailed down!

Passover this year found seventeen of us in Athens as part of a rather elaborate celebration of my mom’s 80th birthday.

We’re moving–both our home and our workspaces–and that’s the change I refer to here.

Shortly before writing this, the law firm I headed: a) was robbed; b) moved; c) dissolved; and d) was robbed again. I was also in a new relationship, way more suddenly than I’d planned after the 7 year relationship I had been in ended the previous July. Whew!

The photograph is of the war memorial at the top of Mt. Greylock in Williamstown, MA. I hike Greylock frequently. This picture was taken shortly after the start of the Iraq War. Clearly (and sadly), there will need to be memorials built for this was too. The poem is unusual (for me) in that it’s in free verse.