Mourning # 28
The gulls and crows had picked
the kitten’s head and guts out
it lay soaking wet in the road
on our evening walk we turned away
when we saw how dead it was
that it was a mess, a kitten no more
one tiny soul like a puff gone on
in the seabreeze in January
during the worst pandemic we’ll ever see
two million souls and rising
collecting the puffs together would create
a permanent fog we’d live in the rest
the foggy rest of our lives.
---- Carole Brookins, 76, a financial consultant from
Palm Beach, Florida died of the novel coronavirus.
Her firm, Public Capital Advisors, was only one of
Carole’s many activities. She founded First Alliance
Foundation to bring together US and French military
leaders. She had just returned from Paris, her favorite
city, when she became ill. Carole Brookins was a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a former
Wall Street executive and director of the World Bank during
the George W. Bush administration. One of her passions
was to help developing countries build infrastructures
because, “if you don’t have roads you can’t get to the health
care center.”
Carole Brookins had no family, but many close friends.
She had, “amazing enthusiasm for people, places
and issues.”
