All These and I Today Are One
ALL THESE AND I TODAY ARE ONE
All these and I today are one
Two blocks
The neighborhood
Supermarket flower shop bakery music school
Drug stores creamery burger stand Baptist church
Restaurants stationery shop Emerson School dime store
Filling station alley-garage theater apartment houses
Downing Street 16th Colfax many trees and many houses
Is to value childhood pleasure happiness naïve,
This child in later years,
From habitual convenience bound?
The solemn English horn of memory
Reviews it all in minor key
I urge you see
A child’s dissolved personality,
See him surely slowly integrated,
Become a part of street and trees,
Mingling with the axle grease,
As well the milk and cheese
While dying of mere summer games,
Played out through years of yearning for lost times,
A crowd of ghostly voices call
By unexpected means
Through the veins AND
Surely do they course my veins
As blood congested
Races in reverse
Old neighborhood’s almost too much a part of me –
Walking running skating SHOUTING!
The infinite as boundary
Copyright © Daver Austin | Year Posted 2011
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