Growing Older Together And Apart

To D.C

For every opportunity

we Seize

to meet Again

there is an added line

another Rivulet of Time

along the mouth or eye

and of course the Expanding gray

thinning the dark depth

of your hair

Yet beyond the references

of Time, you are forever youthful

lithe and light footed

as years pass you Hover,

unseen, above ground

rising just a tad

with every meeting

As I watch you

I see Myself

the rivulets, the Time

the Thinning Darkness

only I, I tread this earth heavily

with each year my imprint

becomes more defined

further encrusted with Dirt

as if I were to become

more of this Matter

as you become

more of this Ether

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Art Work By Yaron Rosner

 

Summer Retreating

The Sun’s Power

Recedes

my body contracts

Wise to the oncoming Chill

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Birds Gather

the Smell of thirsty leaves

books and classroom doors

the Sound of Bells,

distant Now

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One more year

One more groove

in my palm

many more grey filaments

Connecting me Forward

And Back

to so much Time

Walking this Earth

Be it Half a blink

In the Span of this Spinning planet

All the same,

 Crickets

Mindlessly pursue their rubbing

Now to keep Warm

until overpowered,

they Drop

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Photograph by Nick Zungoli

Photograph by Nick Zungoli