Thursday, December 21, 2023

A poem

 The Alert


Mind and heart uplifted

In the dim light and silence

After Mass, out of somewhere 

He hears whispered: Listen.


Outside he can see

Fall is nearly over.

The bare, curving limbs,

Pale blond sunlight, and sky

As blue as longed-for eyes

Somehow remind him: Listen

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