Like Zen In Her Old Age

Like Zen in Her Old Age 

 

Like Zen in her old age,  

she moves as calm water 

with the slow metabolism 

of ancient stones and redwoods. 

  

toiling like the slow rutting 

of running water through rocks. 

With finger to wrist,  

she feels the tide ebb and flow in her pulse,  

  

And within the ice age of an eye blink 

she lives through the millennia 

moving at the pace 

of the slow creep of continents 

  

as she steps back into history.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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