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These Later Years

Our early years were yes quite marvelous -

white porch swings & slow spring afternoons

when beneath your quiet eyes the first blush

of passion swelled & the low summer moon

poured its light across the sleeping grass

& then our children ran through open fields

their laughter rising drifting bird-like  past

our golden dreams in Autumn’s shimmering world -

Still – as I watch you brush your white hair

that falls like snow on rising hills – the trace

of memory – your eyes – your lips – your care

worn body – the movement of your wrist – such grace -

there is I know no season quite so fair

nor beauty found than in these later years.

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Letting Go

Imagine a man standing under Sycamore trees

Near a slow moving stream.

Imagine behind him young mothers push strollers.


It is Autumn. Wind rustles the aging yellow leaves flutter.

He has been here many times before.

He is watching turtles slip from a fallen tree into the stream.


Imagine a few leaves twist upward and fall. The trees are letting go.

I remember letting go of my father’s hand running to a stream we were about to fish.

I remember him letting go laughing carrying long thin rods.


Imagine small ducks drift across the shimmering water

And the leaves letting go of air and color surrender to the stream.

Small fish swim in the water feeding.


I imagine my wife behind the man pulling her sweater over her shoulders.

Maybe life is one long lesson in letting go.

Too soon, I will have to let go of all of this.


Imagine letting go of the man, the stream, the park,

All disappearing into the golden light pushing up through the Sycamore trees.

Imagine the light disappearing.