Kilimanjaro
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Far
Away
in space
and time, yet
fixed in memory
we wake in the dark
and climb the spree by
flashlight reaching Gilman’s
Point where we watch the sun rise
in the east over the Indian Ocean, just
like Hemingway, then past Leopard’s Point
where in 1926, Reusch found a frozen feline at
the edge of the receding glacier and no one knows
why was it there but then I’m not sure why I was there
as we slowly trudged onward through the thin air to Uhuru
where I sign the summit list-and will get a certificate at the base
but only on our return home do I discover that the Blue Jays blew a
3-1 lead in the American League finals to KC who won the World Series
Copyright © D.W. Rodgers | Year Posted 2021
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