What Remains

Whatever aspirational devotion 
Survived
After years 
Of misdirected schooling
And brute works
Reemerged 
As music and poetry:

The sound of aspens’
Flirting branches,
Their ceasing to quarrel
On a windless
Summer.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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