FOR FRIENDS WHO LOST BOTH CHILDREN
………………….God is so omnipresent. . . that God is an angel in an angel,
………………….and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw. . .
………………………….— John Donne, Sermon VII
If you wake at early light, rise,
go out, look toward the waning moon,
toward the twin stars balanced there.
Stand barefoot on newly greening grass;
know that weariness of earth, of care,
courses through you only, not the stars.
If you wake at early light, rise,
go out, harken to the echoes of
nursery rhymes and children’s laughter;
recall thousand-flowered summer
days shared on that lawn, days sacred,
days blessed, as stone, as straw.
If you wake at early light, rise,
go out, look for the twin stars there.
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LINGERING OVER COFFEE
The young woman sits alone,
sipping a latte or cappuccino,
engrossed in a thick paperback,
Du côté de chez Swann.
Her dark hair and brown eyes
are striking, her lips a garnet bow.
She could be a young Odette,
but perhaps my daughter’s age,
so I do not let my eyes linger
as the morning sun bathes
her profile like the setting
of a Renoir household portrait.
She looks up. Her eyes slide
across my face without pause.
I am yesterdays and evenings,
remembrances of things past,
while her day is not yet noon.
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