Beginning Again (+1)

How quiet are the closing moments

of Winter

 

Its final lingering shadow

passing over your regret

 

Days lengthen into night,

returning Blackbirds a good tiding

 

What ended in shades of red and brown

—beginning once again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

One More Smile

 

Have I lived long enough,

have I said what I came to say

 

Is my spirit now to rest,

has the toll-way back been paid

 

Have I lived long enough,

being willful, righting wrongs

 

A last heartache twice forgiven

—one more smile before I’m gone

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)