It’s been a long day

~ Live & Learn

It is dusk. The birds sweep low to the lake and then dive
up. The wind picks a few leaves off the ground
and turns them into wheels that roll
a little way and then collapse. There’s nothing like branches
planted against the sky to remind you
of the feel of your feet on the earth, the way your hands
sometimes touch each other. All those memories,
you wouldn’t want them over again, there’s no point.
What’s next, you ask yourself.
You ask it ten thousand times.

~ Roo Borson, “Ten Thousand” from  Night Walk: Selected Poems

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14 thoughts on “It’s been a long day”

  4. What’s next, but also what’s *now*. Took the dogs out yesterday and was drawn up short by a pair of hawks wheeling across the sky. Just stood and watched for a while, swept along by the lazy circles they traced. So much beauty and magic right under our noses every minute of every day. Must. Not. Forget.

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    1. Yes. But…

      “It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.”

      – Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower (Mariner Books; September 26, 1979)

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